Think about those people who lived in small kasbah or a village. It was easier to be good at something. Someone could be homecoming queen. Someone else could be math whiz, football star or a popular poet in the small community. There were only one or two mechanics and couple of teachers. In each of their domains, these local heroes had opportunity to enjoy the serotonin-fueled confidence of the victor. It may be for that reason that the people who were born in the small kasbahs are statistically over-represented among the eminent. If you are one in the million now, but originated in modern Mumbai, there is twenty of you-and most of us now live in cities. What is more, we have become digitally connected to the entire 125 Crore. Our hierarchies of accomplishment are now dizzyingly vertical. No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is some one out there who makes you look incompetent. You are decent sitar player, but you are not Pt...