On the morning of 15 August 1947 when Jawaharlal Nehru heir to Mahatma Gandhi the Buddha and the European Enlightenment raised the Indian Tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort the seventeenthcentury palace of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan India was free to make experiments with freedom. In the seven decades since Independence the country gradually changed from Nehrus democratic socialism to Narendra Modis democratic entrepreneurial digital India dealing with its internal contradictions by playing the game of democracy and in the process becoming the sixthlargest global economy. And with Chandrayaan exploring the Moon a space nation was born. India overlooks the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean abridging Southeast Asia with the Middle East. With its immense brainpower and young demographics India is geopolitically an indispensable nation. Indians play the game of democracy any which way they can through massive elections parliamentary debates and noconfidence motions coalition forming and horsetrading hartals bandhs dharnas fastuntodeath and finally when nothing works they knock at the doors of the Supreme Court. India in a New Key attempts to offer an insight into questions like How has India been experimenting with freedom to solve its socioeconomic problems Can Modilike Nehrucreate a unified Indian consciousness