A treated photograph of a gold bar being inspected inside a Tanishq store in Mumbai, on Oct. 25, 2019. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Indians are forever searching to hit the top spot in something or anything, somewhere or anywhere—for example, consider the triumphalism that Senator Kamala Harris will be the first ‘Indian’ to rule America—and before you can say ‘pyrrhic’, we’re out clanging utensils in balconies or dancing drunk on streets or tweet-thumping exaggerated boasts or posting cheesy memes on Instagram.