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The Generation Gap - It Still Exists

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Let them Fly :) “Back in our days”,( “ Humare Zamane main …”) , I am sure we all have heard our parents reciting their stories about their hardships in life, be it moving out of villages to small cities, with just about Rs 10 in their pocket, to either carry on with high school or start a venture of their own. We are either bewildered, astonished or are in awe by their heart-touching tale & with each emotion we probably get to take something back. Someone once said that each generation has its own set of struggles and one needs to find out and settle them up as soon as possible. Anyways, the generation gap that we experience is now new; it’s been faced for generations together. This phenomenon might not have been observed earlier, but from two to three generations, it’s become part of the research & academic work i.e since the 1960s. Generation gap can simply be understood as the difference in the set of norms, thinking, and belief that persists in two gener