But not all jugaad stories have happy endings. M. P. Ranjan, an eminent Indian design thinker and a member of the Governing Council of the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, says that the idea that ad-hoc fixes are good enough might actually be to blame for the country’s notoriously creaky infrastructure. “It is an attitude that permeates all our offerings,” he says, “from government services to low-cost infrastructure, products, and service solutions that are not sustainable for inclusive development, all lacking in refinement and costly in the long run.” (via Making Do | Metropolis Magazine)