As close as I can get is that culture, society, decides what good design is. Good design is essentially part of society, with it's ideas, passion, form, and function. In ancient times good design was a pyramid, passion in perfection, idea with it's sides lined up north, south, east, and west perfectly, it's form was of a pyramid, and it's function was to house the dead. Now a building of our time has it's own idea, passion, form, and function that is influenced by culture of the society. This is why things might be good design in Europe might not be good design in the United States.
European culture is different, European ideas, passions, forms, and functions are different.
It thus leads me to say good design to me will be the one which will make difference to the life of people in place like india. If a product along with its basic use makes a statement for the user as well as it is available to people in various configurations adaptive to different users it is a good design. The ideas and qoutes found in the article above are in part from the question of the day responses, and off the ID Forum.