The ultimate secret of the is that it is not about winning the race. Milkha lost the Olympic final. He came fourth. By traditional metrics, he failed.
Formally defined, the BMB Index is a qualitative scoring system ranging from 0 to 10, where 0 represents complete paralysis by past tragedy (the state of young Milkha after the Partition) and 10 represents absolute self-actualization (Milkha winning gold at the Commonwealth Games). Influencers and life coaches have simplified the Index into a pseudo-equation: bhaag milkha bhaag index
The Index measures the delta between that moment of abject failure and the moment in 1960 when he broke the 400m world record at the Rome Olympics (though he finished fourth, his timing of 45.73 seconds was a national record that stood for 38 years). The ultimate secret of the is that it