India, Oct. 17 -- The generation that saw independence witnessed India's transformation from food scarcity to surplus, from 400 million people to 1.4 billion, and from Gandhian simplicity to a politics often driven by privilege and power

It would be pretty interesting for the millennials, or the Generation Z, to interact with the octogenarians, born subjects of the British Empire, but who were fortunate enough to become citizens of free India, and are still active and alert! They learnt the basics of democracy in universities in the late fifties and early sixties of the last century!

These senior citizens have witnessed the great Indian demographic transition from 400 million to 1,400 million, and all of the natural consequences that fo...