I happened to visit an engineering college in south-central Kerala to help a small IT company with their campus placements. I was expecting things to be how they were when I was graduating: classrooms full of anxious students with lots of questions, expectations, etc. But what I found was the opposite: half-full classrooms of indifferent, disinterested students, many of whom were shooed in by teachers. It almost seemed like they didn't want to get a job! No, it was not a one-off thing but the manifestations of a trend that turns what we've been thinking about the youth and their