New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- In a few weeks, when Donald Trump takes over as US President once again, people will wonder if things might have been different had his opponent been someone other than Kamala Harris. By which, they also mean someone with a better game, who was not so ordinary.

There is an implication in this view that one has to be exceptional to become America's leader or reach the top of other fields. Yet, they would struggle to list what is exceptional about Trump. A way of the world is that it punishes the ordinariness of women and is more understanding of the mediocrity of successful men.

A right that women do not have is the right to mediocrity. I call it a right because it is what most people are, by definition, and people h...