May you live a hundred years is a traditional Indian blessing, underlying which is the thought of being healthy enough to live that long. Similarly, it is health that is first in the Western mantra of “healthy, wealthy and wise”. So, one would assume that with a couple of thousand years of heritage, topped by two centuries of Western influence, health would necessarily be top-of-the-mind for governments and people in India. Yet, this is one area in which the country’s performance has, over the years, been most dismal.
In addition to its physical. . .