Originally posted by: myviewprem
The first gen is one born 1930-1950 (those who were kids at time of independence actually within 18 years old. But india was very poor country than so they had to work hard to look after their family that included aged parents and grandparents and own wife and kids. I do not think like you said they were privileged in anyway except they grew up into adults in independent india. India was too poor than. Even milk and rice wheat came from usa than to india in 1950-60s if you talk to those who lived than(in 70-90s now) . So how were they privileged? I did not understand this privileged thing?
The second gen was born 1961-1970s. They were again born into a poor country with wars with china pakistan etc. This is gen that started moving from village to big cities like mumbai, delhi, bangalore in search of jobs. Many worked hard to bring their family out of poverty
The third gen 1971-1990s born. The 3rd generation is who brought about IT revolution and worked hard and brought india from a poor country tag to It silicon valley tag. The mobile, cable TV, internet all was brought about by this gen hard work. Bill gates, steve jobs were all this generation. Thanks to their innovation we have pc, laptop, windows, ibm,apple etc
Fourth gen is 1991-2010s. The 4th gen is like below 30-35 years now. They played with x box, mobile gen as kids only and saw internet as kids. They are the gen with least responsibility towards parents actually or family and are individualistic by nature. The 1970-90s gen has actually not depended on 4th gen to large extent to make living after retirement in old age. So these 4th gen is most independent and live mostly in independent family with wife and kids only without family responsibility. (Like toshu, pakhi, adhik gen in anupama)
The 5th gen 2010-2030 . Like adhya, pari, ishani are much more priviliged enjoying hard work of their parent, grandparents gen. They need not build home for family or take care of parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc as last 2-3 gens have made enough money to take care of themselves. Its like USA kids gen you live only for yourself your dreams without any responsibility for anyone other than themselves and their little kids
The once who suffered sacrificed for family are gen 2 and 3 only
Fourth gen has lived for itself but were not as rich and privileged as 5th gen actually because they got car, foreign trips etc rarely.
Sorry for the digression.
While economics drive a LOT of how a nation fares, there is more than that, that determines where a nation stands.
The first generation of Independent India were the ones that determined policies.
They were the most influenced by the colonial attitude and perhaps were sympathetic towards them. This influenced a LOT of how policies were made, society was structured to functuon. We are still practising most of those. These policies which set the precedent for years to come, now, when we retrospect were deeply flawed and sorry to say, very very selfishly motivated.
This can been seen with the remenants of the partition and huge distress that ut brought to the people, drafting Constitution, Penal Code, Administrative structure in one side and conflicts with our neighbours, internal conflicts with assimilation under the one Flag.
The second generation, although identified the problems was placed at a time of extreme sociopolitical instability. While there was extreme concentration of power, there was an ingrained rebellion stemming out of trying to break out of the set norm which was Stemming out of the flaws of the first generation. While we had the first nuclear tests, green and white revolution one side, we saw Major Wars, the declaration of Emergency. ALL of these centred around the need to settle down and make ends meet, in trying to bridge gaps and sow the seeds of a hopeful tomorrow.
The third generation of Independent India was perhaps the first generation entrepreneurs. They were the ones who ignited risk taking.
The geopolitical stability ensured that there was scope for entrepreneurship exploration and growth. This generation learnt from the previous generations and did not want to repeat the mistakes or the struggles of their grandparents and parents. While license raj gave way to globalisation, we had indigenous products making their presence felt, privatization opened the doors of corporate employment, IT making a slow but sure entry. They started identifying and rectifying the colonial past.
The Fourth generation has little to no generational, colonial burden. They are exposed to a wealth of information and are very smart and energetic tribe. They are willing to call a spade a spade and are unapologetic about it.
Edited by Bodhianveshika - 17 days ago
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