India, in sickness and in health
IN THE 1980s, a Bengali demographer had rudely but not inaccurately described four north Indian states as sick by giving them the acronym 鈥楤IMARU鈥�, assembled with the first letters of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. 鈥楤imar鈥� means sick or ailing and the four states were singled out for the description for their...