India, May 19 -- "Interesting sculpture," said a friend a year ago, as we drove past the Gokhale Bridge in Andheri, pointing to the long cement arm reaching out dramatically into thin air, seven feet above the road, like some Olympian gymnast frozen mid-vault.

"That's no sculpture," I muttered. "That's a bridge."

"A bridge to where?" he asked innocently.

And I had no answer.

Because this bridge, a year ago-like far too many policies and projects in our beloved nation-seemed to have been suspended more in imagination than intention.

But here's the best part: after spending hundreds of crores building it, someone discovered that the road it was meant to connect to was too low. Yes, the bridge was too high. Solution? Another few hundred...