The India Centennial Project

Imagining India@100 Today

As India traverses the course of its destiny, the centennial of its independence approaches as a defining milestone not just for a nation, but for more than a billion dreams of freedom, progress, and prosperity.

We seek to bring together the many aspirations, expectations, ideas, and actions of Indians as they together imagine and shape the nation today and bind them in a shared vision for India at 100. Because when the moment of destiny comes, what India will have achieved will only be what India chooses to imagine today.

Because tomorrow is made today.

THE PROJECT

A forum
for the
centennial
conversation.

TICP aspires to be the leading platform for showcasing expectations and ideas for India at its independence centennial.
The project, a flagship initiative of The India Prosperity Initiative, is designed to educate, engage, connect, and motivate a variety of current and future contributors to India's national journey.
The question at heart of the project

What should India become by 2047?

Not just a prediction. Not just a slogan.
An in-depth exploration of the potential, possibilities, perils that will shape India's trajectory to make the national achievements in 2047 grander.

The India
Centennial
Dialogues.

The India Centennial Dialogues (TICD) podcast is built around informed and considered conversations with eminent individuals who understand India's journey like no other.

The podcast is neither noise nor jargon, neither sensationalization nor over-simplification but an accessible intellectual primer and an invitation to think more deeply for generally-aware audiences who wish to contribute to India@100.

The forum for the future
The India Centennial Dialogues
LATEST EPISODE: COMING SOON

India's Place
in the
World of 2047.

A look into the realities of the world that India will inhabit in 2047. As the world changes fast, India would face some hard choices and some great prospects.

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Conversations
with purpose.

TICD occupies the space between informed public discourse and accessible intellectual inquiry. TICD prefaces contributions by the people as they make informed choices in the journey to 2047.

01

Credible

Conversations grounded in experience, expertise, and intellectual credibility.

02

Considered

Space for nuance, uncertainty, disagreement, and competing possibilities.

03

Accessible

Serious ideas communicated without unnecessary jargon or over-simplification.

04

Provocative

An intellectual nudge that encourages audiences to question received assumptions.

The
conversations.

Each podcast episode focuses on one important question about India's trajectory and examines it in time, context, and perspectives.

EPISODE 01 · THE WORLD

India’s Search for Its Place in the World of 2047

What should India’s role be in the world in 2047 and can its current trajectory deliver the global power it aspires to become?

EPISODE 02 · Friends & Foes

Hard Choices in A Changing World

From balancing America and China to shaping international institutions: what will it take for India to translate its comprehensive national power into global influence?

EPISODE 03 · PROSPERITY

Economic Prosperity for India @ 100

From manufacturing and trade to skills, services, and the rupee: what needs to change for India to become a truly prosperous developed economy?

EPISODE 04 · INCLUSION

Distributing the Gains of Prosperity

What will it take for India's economic transformation to be socially distinctive in 2047 and can India’s current growth trajectory deliver broad-based prosperity?

EPISODE 05 · SCIENCE & INNOVATION

Research and Global Innovation Leadership

Can science, knowledge, and innovation become formative forces for India at 100 and what must change for India to achieve global leadership in research?

EPISODE 06 · AGRICULTURE

Transformational Agriculture for India @ 100

What role will agriculture play in a developed India and can technology, reform, and research transform one of the country’s greatest economic and social challenges?

EPISODE 07 · MEDIA

Soft Power Leadership and Indian Media

Can entertainment, media, and culture become defining sources of India’s global influence and can India move from shaping domestic aspirations to shaping the world’s imagination?

EPISODE 08 · GOVERNANCE

The Steel Frame at 100

Can India’s bureaucracy evolve from a colonial-era administrative system into a professional, accountable, and adaptive institution capable of delivering India’s 2047 ambitions?

EPISODE 09 · THE NEXT GENERATION

The India We Hope For

What does Gen Z want India to become by 2047 and does the generation that will inherit India at 100 believe it can build the country it hopes for?

More than
a podcast.

The India Centennial Dialogues is the first step in encouraging engagement with the imagination of India@100. As TICP develops, the project seeks to facilitate a broader community of interest driven by research, engagement, convening, and ideas.

Coming Soon

An exciting new array of ways to be a part of India's journey to its independence centennial.

India@100

The centennial is only a milestone.
The conversation on the journey begins now.

The India Centennial Project makes that conversation richer, wider, and more consequential by bringing together the ideas, expectations and people that will shape a nation's journey towards 2047.