We adopted our constitution to make our country a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic. These were the initial steps taken by our political leaders. In the last two decades of the 20th century we decided to move away from the ‘licence-raj’ and opened our market to the forces of globalisation. But where do we stand in the second decade of the 21st century? Did we solve our initial problem in a significant way? This project attempts to understand Indian society since independence.