Ranking human development is always intimidating. And the Indian government has been especially edgy about getting on with the task. It has been suspicious, claim people in the know, with 'human development' as formulated by the UNDP that ranked India below Pakistan in some of its earlier reports. Now, after a decade of hesitation and 375 national and subnational human development reports by 135 countries, India was one of the last major countries to release its National Human Development Report last fortnight.