Each year we follow our Best Of issue, pulling together your–and our–favorite essays, stories, initiatives, and technologies from the previous year, with one that explores new horizons beyond our shores, focusing on a nation whose similarities and differences can contain valuable insights into our own.

Last year, we took our fingertips to the United Kingdom; this year’s travelogue, a fortnight after Frank introduced the latest winner of the King Legacy Award (vid here), lands us in India, the world’s largest democracy, struggling with challenges that eerily mirror our own…