How not to talk to a young nation

The refrain, “society has to change”, has to be accompanied by another one: “society has changed”. It’s the classic “everything you say about India, the opposite is also true”. The protesters in Delhi are a more pronounced segment of a larger culture class of young Indians born after liberalisation, and who exhibit the trait of far lower “power distance” than we have seen before in India. Power distance is one of six dimensions developed by researcher Geert Hofstede to describe a culture; people in societies...

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