{"id":883652,"date":"2024-12-04T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=883652"},"modified":"2024-12-04T08:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:09:32","slug":"bill-gates-calls-india-a-laboratory-to-try-things-sparks-outrage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/04\/bill-gates-calls-india-a-laboratory-to-try-things-sparks-outrage-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates calls India &#8216;a laboratory to try things,&#8217; sparks outrage online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; recent podcast appearance with Reid Hoffman has set off a storm of controversy, particularly among Indian commentators, after the tech mogul referred to India as a \u201claboratory to try things.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His statement, intended to highlight India\u2019s role in global development initiatives, has been met with backlash from many, especially on social media platforms, where people voiced their concerns about his comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates&#8217; recent podcast appearance with Reid Hoffman has set off a storm of controversy, particularly among Indian commentators, after the tech mogul referred to India as a \u201claboratory to try things.\u201d His statement, intended to highlight India\u2019s role in global development initiatives, has been met with backlash from many, especially on social media platforms, where people voiced their concerns about his comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}