“I have met Narendrabhai off and on after he became the Prime Minister. I have taken the opportunity to ask him for his opinion on "good governance". I can only repeat one answer that I found refreshing. He said that if he wanted to build a bus stop in a village, he needed only cement. But he wanted the buses to come and go on time. More important, since many poor villagers would be taking the bus, he wanted the conductors to be polite and respectful to them. I doubt if the Doon School and Oxbridge alums who have run India for long would even think such thoughts, leave aside act on them.”