New Delhi, March 27 -- External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday addressed the Central Asia Youth Delegation at the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan in the national capital, highlighting India's optimistic outlook and its deep integration of technology as defining traits of the nation's youth.

Speaking at the event, Jaishankar said, "Today, we are a very optimistic society. If you ask young people in India, they feel that their life will get better, that in the next five years or next ten years, things will be better for them than they were five years ago or ten years ago. Every generation thinks that it will do better than the previous generation."

He contrasted this positivity with global sentiments, noting that this "optimisti...