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The Great Indian Youth

Some days ago, me and my friend were having an usual conversation over a phone call. But as usual, one thing led up to other and we ended up discussing about our lives and what we were actually doing. Well, like the usual, we started by comparing how we were better from the other people, how we didn't do things others were addicted to and such stuffs. We discussed the most ignored question in India: Who are Indian Youths really? India has the most youth population in the whole world. India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 and more than 65% below the age of 35. It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0.4. Well, that's a great thing for the country, isn't it? Is it, really? Let's look back at history of the last century upto today and see what we have achieved as a country and how in the recent time we ha...