About the Book: Dreamers : How Young Indians Are Changing The World
More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five, but India?s millennials
are nothing like their counterparts in the West. In a country that is
increasingly characterized by ambition and crushing limitations, this is a
generation that cannot?and will not?be defined on anything but their own terms.
They are wealth-chasers, hucksters, and fame-hunters, desperate to escape their
narrow prospects. 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