Are Indian Youth The Happiest People In The World?
A recent MTV survey reported that young Indians are among the happiest people on the planet. Not only this, they are also among the most religious. This is happy news, which contradicts the general belief that youth everywhere are unsatisfied and rebellious. The charming inference is that one can relate to them more easily than was thought possible. This metamorphosis cycle is a gradual one. The generation that grew up during independence had the vision to build India from scratch into a developed nation but somewhere down the line, it lost track. From the 1970’s till the 1990’s had a cynical, dejected generation that fled the country in droves since they saw no future here. But post 1991 with the opening of the global market and breaking of walls across the globe, new DNA was coded in the Indian youth. This generation grew up with more choice, more access to information, more money, more opportunities, etc. Roughly half of the nation of one billion is between the ages of 15 and 30 and
