Imagine Reinhold Messner reaching the summit of Everest only to look back at the trail of climbers behind him, and thinking: I’m going to go a little further. With that, he leaps off the top of the highest peak in the world into the vast, icy vacuum below. As he whizzes past the Hillary Step, plummeting at terminal velocity, he shouts to the horrified onlookers: “So far, so good!" This is the story of Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty and many other tycoons like him. It is a narrative so repetitive it almost defies ...