Born in 2003

India and Pakistan stepped back from the brink and resumed cricket — the Friendship Series, played in Pakistan for the first time in fourteen years, was watched by hundreds of millions. Kal Ho Naa Ho was the Bollywood hit — Shah Rukh Khan's charm in a story about living fully in the face of death felt right for the times. The outsourcing boom was transforming Indian cities: malls were appearing, call centres were multiplying, and a young, English-speaking India was spending money it had never had before.