Last year, I experienced the chance to work closely with a group of young reporters and interns. The vast majority of them had been created after Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was launched (that is, after 1995), and boasted of prestigious liberal alma maters ranging from Jadavpur University to Ashoka University.
All of them had another part of typical: Dating lives many older Indian millennials could have only dreamt of within their 20s.
The spring chickens had stories that evoked everything from curiosity to outright envy among older bosses in my office from meeting scores of new people on Tinder to being unabashed about sex. And, this appears to be a pattern across industries.
A married banker that is 38-year-old he seems “massive jealousy” as he hears in regards to the dating everyday lives of their juniors. “I never ever had a stand that is one-night my entire life,” the Bengaluru-based IIT graduate said. “And my more youthful peers appear to attach with seven to eight individuals in a thirty days.”
This sense of frustration over without having met people that are enough common amongst metropolitan gents and ladies inside their 30s. Many millennials created before liberalisation in Asia was raised by having an attitude that is awkward dating and sex—westernised enough to pursue pre-marital romances yet not bold adequate to do this freely and nonchalantly. Continue reading
