Not much apart from the fact that
1.Most are uneducated or poorly educated.
2.Have few skills that will enable them to compete in and / or make a living in the knowledge economy.
3. They have rarely been in environments which enable and encourage critical thinking.
4. Because of a combination of all 3 points above, they are easy targets for being agents of spreading hate, in the anonymity of cheap internet. And finally,
5. They are cynical, hapless about a good future for themselves and their families and hence perpetually angry and / or searching for a magic bullet or Messiah to solve their problems.
I obviously know that this does not apply to all Indian youth but it applies to a significant proportion.
It breaks my heart to write this. I hate how cynical all of this is. It is not as if my generation had all of this and we have lost it. Just that instead of a demographic dividend emerging from the youth of this country, we are facing a demographic disaster.
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1.Most are uneducated or poorly educated.
2.Have few skills that will enable them to compete in and / or make a living in the knowledge economy.
3. They have rarely been in environments which enable and encourage critical thinking.
4. Because of a combination of all 3 points above, they are easy targets for being agents of spreading hate, in the anonymity of cheap internet. And finally,
5. They are cynical, hapless about a good future for themselves and their families and hence perpetually angry and / or searching for a magic bullet or Messiah to solve their problems.
I obviously know that this does not apply to all Indian youth but it applies to a significant proportion.
It breaks my heart to write this. I hate how cynical all of this is. It is not as if my generation had all of this and we have lost it. Just that instead of a demographic dividend emerging from the youth of this country, we are facing a demographic disaster.
-Makarand Sahasrabuddhe
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