Anant’s blog: Of Cannes and Sushmita Sen

Cannes is over and India’s come home with 17 metals. That figure, various media sources have decided, means that India has had a bad year. Worse than last year, worse than the year before that.That’s a stupid way of looking at it. I’m reminded of my son’s attempt at getting into IIT. In whatever year it was, he got a rank of three thousand something, which meant he just failed to make the cut.