Virat is Samrat: Why Captain India burned the brightest of all in 2017
In the churning news cycles of 2017, some new stars were born, others dimmed, but Captain India's burned the brightest of all.
A nation, like Nature, abhors a vacuum. When it has a billion plus people, as India does, any vacuum caused, by leaders or louts, power or pelf, victors or villains, courage or cowardice, glory or gore, triumph or travail, is rapidly filled up.
That's also because India is never static, it is in constant motion. Beneath its vastness and deceptive calm lies a restless sea of humanity. The churning can at times be extraordinarily supportive, causing a rising tide of prosperity and cheer, or on occasion be terrifyingly brutal, sending a tidal wave of destruction and misery.
Ancient India looked upon all this as part of a cosmic dance of the universe in which giant galaxies get born or extinguish themselves with metronomic regularity.
