Desperate Measures

Razia said they were reconstructing the entrance to her rented house and I asked her why. She said no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't save enough money so the relatives and neighbors had suggested that their vastu must've been wrong. The door was ultimately found to be the problem. I was surprised; going by our regular chats, I'd thought they'd done very well last year. I told her the same and this time she said it was more of health worries, as both her husband(dengue) and herself(non-specific illness) had got hospitalized last year. I said I hoped she didn't spend much more on the redesign.

It looks like one can hardly say 'in the last five years' without it being taken as an endorsement or indictment of the government.