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More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five and the country is set to have the youngest population in the world by 2021. But India`s millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West.
In a world that`s marked by unprecedented connectivity and technological advancement, in a country that`s increasingly characterized by ambition, political power and access, in an economy that appears to be breaking down the barriers to wealth that existed for every previous era, this is a generation that cannot - will not - be defined on anything but their own terms. They are wealth-chasers, attention-seekers, power-trappers, fame-hunters. They are the dreamers.
Snigdha Poonam`s remarkable cultural study of the unlikeliest of fortune-hawkers travels through the small towns of northern India to investigate the phenomenon that is India`s Generation Y. From dubious entrepreneurs to political aspirants, from starstruck strivers to masterly swindlers, she travels - on carts and buses, in cars and trucks - through the India`s badlands to uncover a theatre of toxic masculinity, spirited ambition and a kind of hunger for change that is bound to drive the future of our country. These young Indians aren`t just changing their world - they`re changing yours.
ISBN - 9780670087570
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Pages : 256
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