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What is the happy reality of our generation?

Last Updated: 21.06.2025 04:30

What is the happy reality of our generation?

I will first attempt to use the nomenclature used to distinguish “generations” -albeit from a Desi Slant.

Now folks on Quora have undoubtably heard the so-called term “Boomer Generation” used in the US. Interestingly enough these time periods dovetail quite nicely with “Indian Conditions” as well.

South Indian Films have now gained an All India Traction and seems to be edging out Bollywood, as it portrays less of a fake India than Bollywood.

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The middle class was small, but not that stressed from inflation etc.

There is a general atmosphere of intolerance towards minorities, with people unafraid to say things that would’ve been unthinkable in my day.

On a personal level.

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1964- 1984–1991 ( Roughly Indira/ Rajeev Gandhi)

I will also assume that this question is posed vis a vis my generation and compare that to conditions faced by generations today.

The first flush of aaya rams and gaya rams were creeping into the body politic of our legislature and that is when I left for the USA and that was almost 50 yrs. ago.

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Five Star Hotels were not as ubiquitous as today.

Many Indian Journalists have now been co opted so that they too are now in the money making business and currying favor with the powers that be. So how objective can their writings be?

Study of Law (so important in my Dad’s generation gave way to Engineering and Medicine)

There is any scientific evidence that we live in a sphere. Why do others say that we lives in a flat Earth but there is no evidence that they have proven the existence of a flat earth?

Indian Media is being controlled by a few business houses and the news especially foreign news is presented in a slanted way to suit the way, the Govt. would like it to be seen or not seen at all.

There are Engineering Colleges in almost every street corner, it seems.

Hindi Cinema had some great songs and tunes, even if many of us in the South especially didn’t understand such words as Ishq, Waqt, Zulf in the Hindi songs.

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Foreign Exchange were so hard to come by in case you had to go abroad.

5 Star hotels are dime a dozen.

It was to me, anyway, a relatively chaste period.

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> Indian Political leaders, for the most part, were all men and some women of the highest educational and moral Calibre at all levels.

Schools were fewer. Universities even fewer.

Live-in, LGBTQ, none of these made the headlines.

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Your parents chose your career path and also your profession. Aptitude be damned.

I know that some will cavil that I am ignoring I. K. Gujral, Chandrasekhar, Deve Gowda, Morarji Desai, even the redoubtable A.B. Vajpayee’s stint as PM. But bear with me, for the moment. This is done on purpose and to make comparisons simpler.

> Leaders such as Nehru, Rajaji, Morarji Desai etc. were held to the highest standard and they fulfilled that expectation. The idea that they were corrupt was unthinkable, any more than the thought that one’s parents had sex with each other. It was an age, in retrospect, of “innocence” and not just at the level of us kids.

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2014- Present

The Airports have gotten better and nicer.

Even though inflation was rising, there was a semblance of stability in the daily routine of everybody. The institutions and arms of the Govt. worked for the most part. Judiciary, Police, Govt bureaucracy etc.

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The big Cities have gotten bigger and is almost unlivable now, traffic wise.

> River Dams, Public Sector undertakings, Five year Plans galore, HMT, HAL, ITI etc. gave us the aam aami the euphoric feeling that we were on the right track to our deserved place as a great power in the comity of nations.

Boys and Girls were strictly segregated.

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Hospitals everywhere in India, with excellent care offered.

As far as the vast majority of Indians, who lived from hand to mouth, there was hope and relief in a plethora of laws passed.

Newspapers also heavily censored themselves- clashes were referred to as “communal disturbances” between two communities. No details.

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IIT’s had just been established.

> The horrors of Partition meant that the Govt would make sincere efforts to put all that behind us and accommodate all faiths.

People got married the old fashioned way (mostly).

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Young Kids have a lot of money these days and are getting married much later.

Indian industry started to make cars and other goods.

There was no TV… Doordarshan of very poor quality only reserved for New Delhi.

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1991- 2014 ( P.V. Narasimha Rao/ MMS)

2014- Present ( Modi).

Everything is available today without any delay. You have the money, you got it in today’s India.

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We had to wait for everything. Cars, Scooters, you name it. Nehru’s socialism meant that like the Soviet Union that he admired: There was a wait list for everything.

The first flush of enthusiasm of the Nehruvian age soon turned into despondency as Public Sector Industry after Public Sector Industry were all running in losses.

Growing up in this decade.

Also, the Indian Economy while growing fast, is not able to provide jobs for sizable number of young men in the nation and that is a problem.

Women in India seem to have more freedom, even as they feel more afraid of the general environment.

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And then we did not have Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram.

1947–1964 ( Post Independence Generation). (Roughly Nehruvian)

>Both Central and State. Most of the Leaders were educated in the finest traditions of liberalism, often at Oxford and Cambridge and they had sacrificed their ‘cushy futures” for the cause of independence. When country’s rule passed into their hands, what would one expect?. Little if any corruption at the highest levels, or at least the perception of it.

Very few boys strayed and even fewer girls.

> “Secularism” was dinned into our ears until it became “second nature”, to most of us anyway.

Pluses:

> India’s population was around 365 million.

Redefined

It was very very hard for the general category people to get seats in the few Engineering and Medical Colleges in the State, let alone the IIT’s.

Now of course,Today Secularism to many is a dirty word and so is Socialism;

Boys and Girls these days are not afraid to be friends to each other (My opinion overall a good thing)

Bank Jobs were highly sought after.

There are also proliferation of IT cells that offer an altered reality of the world, as they would like to see it and not as it really is.

Live in relationship; Divorce (almost unheard of in my youth) don’t raise an eyebrow.

Import Substitution was the mantra.

Nehruvian: I belong to the Nehruvian Generation.

Love marriages were all to be ‘gasped at’ so rare were they at that time.

Education has gotten so much more expensive.

> Idealism reigned supreme, about the Govt. and it people and why not?

> We grew up basking in the first flush of the pleasant prospect of an “Independent” resurgent India.

Foreign goods, forget about it, mostly sold in black markets.

I’m going to attempt to taxonomy “Generations” in India as below.

South Indian Cinema had great actors and story lines that we could relate.

Govt. careers, such as IAS, IPS etc. very quickly gave way to Engineering /Medical degrees in the newly developing India (At least in the South).

Computers were just creeping in and opposed by the Labor Unions.

Medical Insurance have proliferated along with US style expensive Doctor Bills.

Ministers etc. were the only ones to have the Indian Flag on their bonnets. (Don’t know why?)

Life went on in essentially as a late 19th/early 20th century mold.