Decade in Review (2010-2019): Biggest events in India
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#10. Upwardly mobile and rising (2010-)
Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters - 2/10
#9. To Mars at half price (2013-)
Hindustan Times via Getty Images - 3/10
#8. The rape that shook a country (2012)
Hindustan Times via Getty Images - 4/10
#7. India does it for Sachin (2011)
Hindustan Times via Getty Images - 5/10
#6. Supreme Court bats for love (2018)
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#5. The rise of the Right (2014-)
Hindustan Times via Getty Images - 7/10
#4. One tax for one republic (2017)
Muralinath via Getty Images - 8/10
#3. A new India flexes its muscles (2016, 2019)
Reuters Photographer / Reuters - 9/10
#2. The taking of Kashmir (2019)
SOPA Images via Getty Images - 10/10
#1. Ram returns to Ayodhya (2019)
Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
As we set ourselves to consign another year to its final resting place, it is almost an awakening to note that the next couple of months mark the beginning of not just a new year, but a new decade. We’re older, surely, though not necessarily wiser; we have witnessed change to be wrought to ourselves and our surroundings in a way that only the passage of time can. It would be fitting, thus, to pause and reflect on the past ten years, which — though they seemed to have sped away almost in a trice — were marked by happenings of historic import. Here we look at events that defined the decade of 2010-2019 for Indians — from the 2011 World Cup win to the abrogation of Article 370, to the Supreme Court judgement (a verdict to end all verdicts?) in the century-old Ayodhya dispute.