Slated to emerge as a leading global economic power, India has recently made media headlines with stories about the IT revolution and the new rich, the construction of suburban malls and the spread of luxury gated communities. Yet for another India globalization has only reinforced poverty, caste discrimination and gender bias.

Twelve JSchool print and television reporters traveled last month to Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Srinagar to look beyond the glowing headlines. They found a prospering middle class but also villagers selling kidneys to escape debt, women suffering increasingly from dowry crimes, microcredit loans wasted, infrastructure crumbling under pressure from foreign investment, huge profits made from unregulated strip mines, and the pangs and problems of illegal cross-border migration.

They met one of the last surviving freedom fighters who looks back at the independence struggle and an urban developer who claims to offer an alternate vision for rebuilding Mumbai’s crumbling slums. They filmed a village performance troupe in Kashmir and discovered how women who lost husbands and sons to a devastating insurgency find new social and economic roles.

Join them on April 20 for a mosaic of stories, slides and video footage that capture the many faces of India’s transition.