Born in 2010

Dabangg was the Bollywood phenomenon of the year — Salman Khan as a swaggering, corrupt but loveable cop, a film that understood the dreams and humour of small-town India perfectly. The Commonwealth Games came to Delhi amid huge controversy about corruption and construction delays, but were ultimately delivered. India was a decade into its economic transformation, and the evidence was everywhere: crowded airports, gleaming malls, a middle class that numbered hundreds of millions.