Trends | Holding a mirror

During INDIA TODAY’s first decade, the nation changed without announcing it. The magazine looked beyond power and policy. It watched everyday life. It tracked habits. It paid attention to what people bought, feared, read, watched, and hid. It asked an unfashionable question. What does development actually achieve? Science, it found, stayed urban. Technology skipped villages. Progress moved faster than people could follow. The country was modernising unevenly, and the cost was quiet migration.