Birthday blues, Trump style

Of course birthday entitlement is a thing.

- ANUJA CHAUHAN

It is a sign of healthy self-esteem to feel important and expect things—for loved ones to pull out cakes at midnight, and flowers at breakfast, for friends to drop by with wine and presents, for your social media to flood with wishes, even for the universe to dish out fine weather and rainbows as nods of special recognition that you are a favoured child.

And, sometimes, birthdays do deliver mightily. Who can forget Sachin Tendulkar’s 25th—when he blew away a much-favoured Australian squad like so many birthday candles, scoring 134 off 131 balls, including 12 fours and three towering sixes, to win the final of the Coca-Cola desert storm tournament for India?