Nandan Nilekani’s name comes up again — someone was saying his Aadhaar saved crores in subsidy leakage. Bas, maybe it did, but last winter my father couldn’t get his knee medicine because the village chemist’s internet was down for three days and the app wouldn’t work. We had to borrow from a neighbour who still keeps his stock in a brown register. Acha, efficiency is fine, but nothing beats a man who knows your father’s name.

Reading the debate here, I repaired an old transistor radio yesterday. Found the exact part needed in a tin box my father labelled in 1982. Perhaps our basketball needs less shouting about new systems and more of that—finding what already works in the quiet corners, not ordering shiny kits from abroad. The game, like these hills, has its own rhythm.