It is more than a week since the prime minister has returned from the US and by norm, reporting should have whittled down, attention should have shifted to the Next Big Story, and follow-up should have been left to the babus of Delhi to do in ‘due course of time’.

But, there is a new energy and urgency in the way things are done in the new government. Before, during, and after the US visit, high performance standards were set and met. Everybody on the team was highly motivated, equipped with technical skills and competence and if they didn’t, they either stepped aside or assisted in the best way that they could. Those who worked behind the scenes are terming it ‘a fantasy visit’ because of the high energy levels and higher adrenalin drives. From one meeting to another with a timetable on how to achieve, what and when, the focus was on deliverables. One bureaucrat remarked, “How could we even try to slow down when the PM would put in fourteen-hour days?”