1950s THEN: Fleeing Chinese military brutality, thousands of Tibetans followed the Dalai Lama through the Himalayas, finding home in India NOW: The National Register of Citizens in Assam ...Image by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Corbis Via Getty Images
1960s THEN: With the onset of the Green Revolution, farmers began to grow high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice, changing India&rsquos status as a food-deficient country and creating j...Image by Archive Photos/Getty Images
1970s THEN: Triggered by a judicial decree that held her guilty of corrupt electoral practices, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed an 18-month Emergency across the country, leading to po...Image by Francois Lochon/Gamma-Rapho Via Getty Images
1980s THEN: On the intervening night of December 3 and 4, 1984, a leak from Union Carbide&rsquos pesticide plant in Bhopal turned the city into a toxic gas chamber, killing thousands and m...Image by Sandro Tucci/Liason Via Getty Images
1990s THEN: Rajiv Goswami, a student at Delhi University, sets himself ablaze during protests against caste-based job reservations recommended by the Mandal Commission NOW: Even as state ...Image by Raveendran/ AFP / Getty Images
2000s THEN: Delhi High Court scraps a colonial-era law that criminalised homosexuality in India NOW: The Kinnar Akhara, comprising transgender sadhus, including LGBTQ leader Laxmi Tripath...Image by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images
2010s THEN: Isro&rsquos successful Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) proves the country&rsquos space capabilities NOW: Academics at an Indian Scientific Congress Association event claim t...Image by Pallava Bagla/ Corbis Via Getty Images
