IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN INDIAN? In 2014, when Bhairavi Jani got into a car with three friends and drove 18,181 km across India, from the remote districts of Nagaland to the villages of Rann of Kutch and from the Kashmir Valley to the interiors of India''s Deccan she was searching for the threads that weave the people of the world''s largest democracy together. What she discovered from the many highways she took to swades form the beating heart of this book.