So here we are. We now have a government in Delhi that has as full a majority as we have seen in twenty years. It has no excuse now not to deliver. There can be no more vague talk about ‘development’ and ‘the poor’. India is out of time. Let the new government begin by promising that no Indian child will be malnourished by the year 2014. A goal that must and can be achieved. Let it promise real schools and health centres in our villages and cities that do not look like slums. Let it promise real police reforms and a total restructuring of our intelligence services so that no Indian city can be held to ransom as Mumbai was. Let it promise real administrative reforms without which none of the above is possible. This is only a short list of a long agenda.