Get your own hero

Sunita Williams has created a record for the longest space walk and I’ll bet my editorial career that the Indian newspapers will have her on the front page, claiming her “Indian heritage” good enough a reason for one billion asli desis to be proud of. With no disrespect to Sunita, we in India have to let go off these ‘borrowed’ achievers and get some of our own. Sunita is about as Indian as a Sioux in Kolhapur. We clearly suffer from an aspirational disease and the media is cause of this cancer. Heal thyself India, get your own heroes.