India, June 27 -- There was a time when delay was not unusual enough to be noticed. A train running late did not become a conversation. A letter arriving after several days did not feel like inefficiency. A decision taking weeks was not interpreted as hesitation. It was simply how things moved. Life, in that sense, had a natural lag built into it. Nothing arrived fully formed. Everything required a passage. That rhythm has quietly disappeared. Today, delay is treated as failure. A message unanswered within minutes raises questions. Complaints can be raised just because a delivery did not reach on time. Even a brief pause in a system, raises brows and creates frowns. Speed has stopped being a feature. It has become an expectation. This is ...