I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute, said Napoleon Bonaparte. Nowhere should his aphorism resonate more than in developing countries like India, where every moment lost counts for a great deal because we have so far to go to reach the goals of development: not just economic, but particularly in health, livelihoods and education, amongst others. Echoing the thought is the line from Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral: “To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow’. His name is ‘Today’.”