· Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World. Snigdha Poonam. www.doorway.ru ISBN: | pages | 8 Mb. Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World. · They are the dreamers. Award-winning journalist Snigdha Poonam traveled through the small towns of northern India to investigate the phenomenon that is India’s Generation Y. From dubious entrepreneurs to political aspirants, from starstruck strivers to masterly swindlers, these are the clickbaiters who create viral content for Facebook and the internet scammers who stalk you at home, . “[A] perceptive, useful book on an important topic Poonam is clear-eyed on the challenges the youth of the Indian population present These young people are hitting adulthood with the cultural values of their grandparents―socially conservative, sexually timid, God-fearing―but the life goals of American teenagers: money and fame, Poonam points out/5(58).
More than half of India's population, some million people, is under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than ever, but with narrow ideas of Indian identity; raised with the cultural values of their grandparents, but the life goals of American teenagers. They are wealth-chasers, attention-seekers, power-trappers, fame-hunters. They are the dreamers. Snigdha Poonam's remarkable cultural study of the unlikeliest of fortune-hawkers travels through the small towns of northern India to investigate the phenomenon that is India's Generation Y. They are the www.doorway.rua Poonam's remarkable cultural study of the unlikeliest of fortune-hawkers travels through the small towns of northern India to investigate the phenomenon that is India's Generation Y. From dubious entrepreneurs to political aspirants, from starstruck strivers to masterly swindlers, she travels - on carts and buses.
“[A] perceptive, useful book on an important topic Poonam is clear-eyed on the challenges the youth of the Indian population present These young people are hitting adulthood with the cultural values of their grandparents―socially conservative, sexually timid, God-fearing―but the life goals of American teenagers: money and fame, Poonam points out. Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World by Snigdha Poonam is published by Hurst (£). To order a copy for that price go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK pp. Snigdha Poonam set out on an ambitious project - she wanted to find out what young Indians dream of, do, aspire to and simply what they are like. In India youth is categorised as anyone at the age , which comprises over one third of the population.
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