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We’re gonna get to that place

Where we really want to go, and we’ll walk in the sun

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But ’til then, tramps like us

Baby, we were born to run…

In his anthem Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen captures the live-wire restlessness of youth seeking escape from the suffocating, dead-end reality of a working-class life. The ‘Boss’ does not reveal whether “that place" that the young seek is good or terrifying, bad or gratifying.

The truth is, it doesn’t matter what kind of a place that is. Every new generation will seek it irrespective.

Which is why it is not surprising that we are witnessing the beginning of a generational churn in Indian politics. The young, impatient, digitally-savvy Indian — some seeking faster positive change and aspirational highs, others perhaps frustrated with underemployment and elite capture — is going to increasingly........

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