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There are moments when you think why should you talk about current political situation when its not my concern. I have hardly written any blogs on Political issues. My last blog on one such issue dates back to 2020 when farmers were protesting( Here is the link: https://asksoniya.blogspot.com/2020/12/farmers-aka-khalistanis-vs-govt-aka.html) in case you want to read. And then there are moments when you are just sitting in your cozy bed with a cup of warm coffee, thousands miles away from your country and your conscious tells you... What is the value of my education, career or future if I stop caring about the system that decides how my country is governed? That question seems to be sitting somewhere behind the protests we are watching in India today. Young protesters, student organisations, civil-society groups and opposition supporters have taken to the streets demanding accountability over the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision, or SIR, of electoral rolls, and many ...

  What I Have Learnt from Gen Z Being a Millennial Every generation thinks the next one is a little too much. Too loud. Too sensitive. Too casual. Too impatient. Too rebellious. And maybe every younger generation looks at the older one and quietly wonders: Why did you tolerate so much? I am a millennial, and the more I observe Gen Z, the more I realise something uncomfortable. We spent a lot of our lives trying to adjust. They are spending theirs asking why they should. And perhaps that is one of the biggest differences between us. Before I talk about what I have learnt from them, let me explain briefly who we are talking about. Millennials are generally the generation born roughly between the early 1980s and mid-1990s. Gen Z came after us, roughly from the late 1990s to the early 2010s. We grew up in two very different worlds. Millennials still remember a childhood before smartphones, social media, instant messaging and constant internet access. Gen Z practically grew up with tech...