How young India views jobs and work

Despite the fatigue of having to find work gigs , there is hopefulness and striving, and little anger

This election season has seen a lot of heated debate around unemployment, especially how the youth are distressed by the lack of jobs.

An interesting question to ask is: How do the affected parties— the youth themselves — see the job situation through the prism of their life and world view? What do they think and feel about it? Are they angry and incensed? Resigned and defeated? Wary and anxious? Or NOTA on all these feelings?

As with last month’s column (“How Young India views the world and polls”), this piece is also based on the findings of the ethnographic