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India Needs to Get Healthy
The government is a long way from providing a decent life for its citizens.
Hundreds die from Japanese encephalitis every year in Uttar Pradesh.
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As India celebrated 70 years of independence last week, a tragedy in a remote corner of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, highlighted how far the world’s largest democracy still is from being able to provide a healthy life for most of its citizens. For all its talk of smart cities and industrial corridors, this is the government’s greatest failing -- and one where it could make a big difference quickly.