The NHA data show that India has a long way to go to attain the WHO yardstick of keeping out-of-pocket health expenditure to 15-20 per cent of the country’s GDP.

The inflow into the BJP is as much a result of the Opposition's failure to offer hope to ambitious leaders in its ranks as it is the outcome of the former's approach of winner should take it all.

He punched at the four walls within which a film was supposed to be contained, daring cinegoers to recognise the artifice that was cinema and take pleasure not just in the finished product but the nuts, bolts and clapboards that it's making involved.

Over time, shrine politics – its culmination the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 – has been enmeshed with narratives of nationhood and Hindu self-pride that frame Muslims as outsiders. As the legal battle continues in higher courts, it must not be forgotten that the crux of the matter lies in politics, rather in law.

The restrictions imposed now relate only to non-parboiled non-basmati rice, on which a 20 per cent export duty has been slapped.

On its part, India imposed a series of economic measures against China and matched the PLA deployments on the border.

For all its clarion call to the more empowered India of the future, the Central Vista project seems far too preoccupied with a past that has either lost its power to cramp the nation's present and future, or has become so entangled with it that separation seems to be a hopeless endeavour.

Most of the loans that have turned bad were under the first tranche of the scheme. This is worrying as it points towards the possibility of more pain surfacing in the months ahead.

Beyond the mechanics of the fashion cycle — in today, out tomorrow, back in day-after — can be read the signs of a society and culture in flux.

PM Hasina has done much to deal with terrorism, and to deny a haven to anti-India groups, despite the anti-Bangladeshi rhetoric from the highest political echelons in India. But that doesn't mean that Delhi should take things for granted.