agreed,while there is factor of brilliance or intelligence which is mostly given importance whenever someone achieves something in India-the author misses the greater point-that american and western way of approach is that anyone can make it to the top and achieve his best if there is an oppurtunity and proper system-NOT JUST INTELLIGENCE AND HARDWORK but proper approach.All the education in US is standardised.The fact that US "achieves" so many olympic medals and nobel prizes is more of bringing out the best in every indivudual-its system provides oppurtuniities to every indivudual and does not differentiate based based so called elite and not so elite institutions-it time we stop talking about IITs or IIMs or intelligence.Getting into IIT or IIM is more considered as a prestige rather than any higher purpose or social goal in life by many people.Our goal is make all oppurtunities available to all.Desire and values are greater than brands and so called merit or nonmerit.Like feudalism-our approach has not changed over years.
