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Thursday, March 12, 2026
TopicIndian youth

Topic: Indian youth

Indian millennials are too traditional to feel free, and too modern to feel at home

Our parents don’t understand our exhaustion. We are not digging wells or surviving wars, they remind us. But, we are tired—bone-deep.

Bhajan raves, caste jokes, Kundli-matching—young India is scrolling back to conservatism

These were the battles we thought we’d already fought. The slow recognition that caste is a plague upon Indian society. The hard-won right to choose your own partner.

SubscriberWrites: Two Childhoods, One Frame—what India’s future deserves

Bridging the gap demands more than policy; it calls for people-powered action to secure every child’s future.

Matching kundalis is cool again. India’s youth is consulting sun, moon, stars to plan life

Tarot card readers are playing therapists. Astrology cults are big on DU fest grounds.

SubscriberWrites: Tackling major life issues

Understanding work load, gold prices, education and other problems often faced by Indians.

Skill India Mission to empower Indian youth

Industry-relevant skills to meet growing industry demands.

To connect with youth, RSS affiliate holds ‘reels & memes’ contest themed on social harmony

Sanskar Bharati asks participants to send reels and memes on topics such as ‘Untouchability a curse’ and ‘Reservation’, in bid to 'encourage youth to do their bit for society'.

India has $1 trillion digital dream, but 73% youth lack basic email skills, shows NSSO survey

Majority of respondents in 15-29 age group reported inability to do basic computer tasks. 73% lack routine email skills, less than 3% said they could code, in survey released this month.

‘Overage’ at 21, rural India’s Army aspirants are running for their lives — and out of time

Making a living, manliness, marriage — all hinges on the Army for many in Rajasthan and Haryana’s military-obsessed belts. But no recruitments in 2 years means boys are aging out.

Unemployment and unlimited data pack — UP’s youth are neither angry nor idle

Afternoons are to charge phone batteries, evenings are to play digital games in parks, and nights are to climb rooftops, catch network, and escape into videos and Insta reels.

On Camera

Prada learnt its lesson. Where are ‘humara culture’ Indians on Ralph Lauren’s jhumka?

The problem, dear Ralph Lauren, is not your use of the jhumka, but your dismissal of its history. The list of stolen items is too vast to fight, but we haven't given up on acknowledgement.

Floundering PM Internship Scheme used less than 1% of Rs 10,831 crore set aside for it in FY25-26

The Standing Committee on Finance tabled its report on Demands for Grants (2026-27) in the Lok Sabha Thursday.

India-Bangladesh relations on track—After military intel chief’s visit, envoy goes to Army War College

In a first during his tenure as High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah addressed JOCAP consisting of tri-forces officers, as New Delhi & Dhaka step up normalisation efforts.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.