YOUTH UNREST

The world was never so young, and also restless. More than 41 per cent of global population is below the age of 24 years. It is a generation that has grown up in the post-1990s tumultuous phase. They have grown up with one model of economic growth—the globalised free market. They are better off than their predecessors, economically and politically. But from Hong Kong to Chile to Lebanon to Barcelona to India, from rising food inflation to train tickets to curbing of freedom to climate change, from rich to poor, protests sweeping across the world have one common factor: the youth leading the charge. This decade the young world became angrier.