SOME students in Classes 11 and 12 in elite urban schools turned to me for counsel a few months ago. They were distressed by widening economic inequalities in India and the world, and the continuing deterioration of the natural environment. They had created an online forum, The Youth Policy Collective, some 80 strong and growing, in several Indian cities, to get the voices of young people heard in policy circles. What inspired me was that, while their cohorts in school (and they too) were busy with preparations, such as SATs and college counsellors, to study in colleges in the West. . .
