Manu Joseph: Why people take pride in the achievements of others for truly odd reasons
By the time we reached the 12th standard, there were only 16 of us left in class. India had transformed. Thousands of children were in famous schools, preparing for their future. Those who were not seemed fated to lives of poverty. But somehow we, too, made it. We, too, got lucky, except four who died. This is an extraordinary mortality rate for a class that just turned 50, or it’s a sign that the young die in higher numbers than people think.
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