FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Indians, in many ways, are accustomed to deal with the failures of the State. Over the years, we have dealt with power shortages by installing generator sets, compensated for the lack of public transport by using personal vehicles, travelled on pot-holed roads, made up for the absence of clean drinking water through water filtration devices or bottled water and, more recently, installed air purifiers to deal with urban pollution. The public health infrastructure was always ramshackle at best, but we managed. There