The percolator had just stopped its gurgling when I saw Vedika Pinto’s name flash on the phone. Reminded me of a junior college tournament in Bilaspur, 2018 — her net play was so sharp the shuttle seemed to hit the floor before the sound reached your ears. You look at that Chinese system, the way they rotate players through provincial teams like monsoon water through a rice field, and you wonder: how much of her success is pure talent, and how much is just having five sparring partners who are almost as good as her? My daughter in Pune says the same about her MBA cohort — the ones from IITs aren’t smarter, yaar, they just had better classmates to push them. Bas, that’s the difference our newspapers won’t print because it doesn’t make a catchy headline.
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