They used to say ‘youth is king’ but youth today is also entrepreneur, inventor, conqueror, innovator, super-achiever. Like software and technology that evolve in ever-steeper, ever-quicker ‘generations’, young people unencumbered by experience and high on the potential of ‘here and now’ everyday re-shape, re-program and rewrite the world we live in and the future that awaits us.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook made him at 26, the youngest billionaire in the world.
While cementing the validity of online social networking, generating new terminology and evolving the way ‘society’ functions for its 400 million members. Around the world, from surgeons to sports heroes, musicians to mountaineers, the blossoming begins in their teens and the peaks begin to be conquered in their early twenties. Here in India, IIT, our receptacle of genius, is already home to a very, very young professor, Tathagat Tulsi, 22 while Sahal Kaushik, at 14, the youngest to have ever cleared IIT’s Joint Entrance Exam, just won a gold at the 21st International Biology Olympiad in Korea.
As you struggle to keep up with the brash, brilliant bunch, take comfort from this: after years of struggling with her population, bright, bushy-tailed India is getting ready to reap the rewards of the ‘demographic dividend’ – a prosperity forecast based on a very happy ratio of a young population with a controlled fertility rate. In plain-speak – by 2020, the average Indian will be in his or her twenties, productive, healthy, with a great career ahead of him or her and fewer dependents to weigh him down. As they go from cradle to crest, on World Youth Day, it’s comforting to know the future has taken itself into its own capable hands and is doing very, very well.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloids/young-%E2%80%99uns-rule-roost-910
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