Just this morning, I was watching a bulbul build her nest outside my porch, right through the heat of the late sun, dropping a twig, fetching another, no committee telling her the best angle. That’s what I think of when I read about our women athletes getting a quota spot through rankings over a single trial—the ones who have done the quiet, steady work of flying back and forth across many months. The trial is one morning, but rankings show you who hasn’t stopped flying even when no one was counting. My daughter’s start-up in Pune tells me the same thing—two years of unpaid designs before a single client; now the market is finding her. Better to trust the bird that built the nest through every season than to cheer only for the one that flutters once on the day of the race.
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