SynopsisThe 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections saw the involvement of India's youth like never before. They were debating inside classrooms, sitting for dharnas on the street, having conversations in offices and on social media. The Internet became the place for political outrage, humour, op-eds and blogs carried by youth-run pages and media houses. The election in 2014 saw 150 million young voters and the highest number of first-time voters in India. As our country gains in years, the average age of the population keeps getting younger. By 2020, India will have the world's largest youth population with 356 million people between the ages ten and twenty-four. And yet while we will have the
largest number of young people in a country, the average age of our parliamentarians is sixty-three. Our leaders are at least four decades older than the average twenty-five-year-old. This book follows the journeys of eight youth leaders, their aspirations for the country's youth, their aspirations for themselves, and most importantly, their
aspirations for the nation. It explores whether their politics only mimics that of the older party leaders or if they have the ideas, passion and motivation of the demographic they represent.
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About the author
Gurmehar Kaur is the author of Small Acts of Freedom, a deeply personal family history published by Penguin Random House India in 2018. She is a social activist and an ambassador for Postcards for Peace, a non-profit charitable organization. Kaur cofounded Citizens for Public Leadership (CPL), an independent nonpartisan movement focused on advocating for progressive public policy in India. CPL is an apolitical non-profit with the sole objective of strengthening the capacity of Indian youth to take up leadership challenges in the public sphere. In 2017, Kaur was listed by TIME magazine as a 'Next Generation Leader', a global listing of ten young men and women making a
difference in the world. She graduates from Lady Shri Ram College in 2019 and looks forward to a career in social reform, public policy and law.
