India, Jan. 30 -- Imagine a father standing in the cold and watching his young son die, for two hours. Not suddenly. Not instantly, but slowly, minute by minute, while his voice echoed in the dark. "Papa, please save me." The death of a bright young software engineer, 27-year-old Yuvraj Mehta, who met a preventable death-not on a battlefield, not in an unpredictable natural calamity, but on a road we travel every day without even a second thought-reminds us of the callous attitude of civic and development authorities (Indore and Noida both are victims of poor management by development authorities). Similarly, in another incident in seemingly pristine Indore-a city the nation has applauded as among its cleanest-a wholly different hazard st...