In some places, change is slow-coming and in other places like India it sweeps through like an unannounced tornado.  But much like a surprise tornado, though undetected, it has been in the works.  No doubt, India has experienced some dramatic changes in the last two decades thanks to the rapid rise of its GDP and other economic progress.  The social and cultural manifestations of the country's economic growth are most acutely seen in India's youth and why a new book by Palash Krishna Mehrotra on the topic will likely strike a chord with Indians.

In the book, Mehrotra looks at the social transformations that have taken place and how India's youth are faring with and driving the change.  The non-fiction book is a collection of vignettes on the real life accounts of some of India's generation X and Y.  As Anuja Jaiman reports for Reuters, some of the stories include, "a scriptwrite living with his firlfriend in Mumbai and put on the spot when the disapproving parents turn up" and "a doomed call centre worker living in a cloud of numbing drug addiction financed by his high salary."

The stories that Mehrorta said he aimed to tell were ones that were untold and strayed from convention.  "I was not interested in the office hours. What happens in the bedroom, the relationships they have, do they go to karaoke bars, etcetera."  The author went on to say that the biggest change he saw from his reporting is that young people are not as steadfast about maintaining tradition just for the sake of maintaining it. 

"There are no more sacred cows," he said, "This gneration is more self-assured and willing to challenge things."