Today, the prime minister will stand at the Red Fort to address the nation. For a generation, the Independence Day speech has been about India’s mind-blowing progress – and todays will be no different. As a frequent visitor to India for more than 30 years, I agree that the country’s future is phenomenally bright. But if there were one thing you could do to make India’s prospects even more spectacular, it would be to invest more in the health of all Indians. When I first started coming to India in the 1980s, I marvelled at the amazing growth of the Indian IT sector and the entrepreneurial spirit that seemed to reign everywhere.

These two factors have been pillars of the country’s stunning economic growth. In the past decade, however, I’ve started to think more broadly about what – in addition to gross domestic product – makes for a healthy and productive society. After my 30 years at Microsoft, my wife, Melinda, and I created our foundation, which is devoted to improving the health and well-being of the poorest people in the world, including the poorest in India.

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