INDIA IN A NEW KEY: NEHRU TO MODI: 75 YEARS OF FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY

On the morning of 15 August 1947, when Jawaharlal Nehru, heir to Mahatma / Gandhi, the Buddha and the European Enlightenment, raised the Indian / Tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort, the seventeenth-century palace / of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, India was free to make experiments with / freedom. / In the seven decades since Independence, the country gradually changed from / Nehru's democratic socialism to Narendra Modi's democratic entrepreneurial / digital India, dealing with its internal contradictions by playing the game of / democracy and in the process becoming the sixth-largest global economy. / And with Chandrayaan exploring the Moon, a space nation was born./ India overlooks the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean, abridging Southeast / Asia with the Middle East. With its immense brainpower and young / demographics, India is geopolitically an indispensable nation. Indians play / the game of democracy any which way they can: through massive elections; / parliamentary debates and no-confidence motions; coalition forming and / horse-trading; hartals, bandhs, dharnas, fast-unto-death; and finally, when / nothing works, they knock at the doors of the Supreme Court. / India in a New Key attempts to offer an insight into questions like: / -How has India been experimenting with freedom to solve its socio-economic / problems? / -Can Modi-like Nehru-create a unified Indian consciousness?