Two Americans are transforming millions of lives in UP and Bihar. Melinda Gates on her last trip to Maoist-affected villages in Jharkhand said she didn’t go there to ask ideological questions. All she wanted to know was whether the women had bits of soap to wash their one or two saris, which they had the means of getting to a nearby clinic to deliver their babies, that midwives learned to close faucets with their elbows and clinics had small warming plates to place new-borns. Rather like an efficient office manager, hers is a detailed hands-on engagement with the nitty-gritties of the task at hand. Bill and Melinda Gates have vowed that the vast majority of Microsoft’s resources would go back to society. Not just their ‘own’ people or their ‘own’ society or their ‘own’ religion, but to people in distant India. The question arises, when will India get its Melinda Gates?

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