The Country That Made Ambition a Moral Duty
Every report card in India carries a ghost score, the marks your neighbour's child got. The pressure is not imagined. It is structural, inherited, and dressed in the language of love. Parents who sacrificed call it motivation. Children who broke call it something else. Before the Gita can say anything useful here, it is worth naming what the pressure actually is: a collective agreement that a person's worth is legible in their rank.