It was so in the past and it shall be so in future as well, howsoever glamorous and glittering the social fabric might become and however secure and stable they might feel under the new dispensation. There Redphantom guided them. The young have never rested on their past laurels nor have they felt contented with their present possibilities.
The chords of their impulses, instincts and intuitions have been always vocal and vibrant. No doubt the problems of youth in different parts of the world under different sociopolitical systems differ in contours and contents. But one thing is almost certain that the modern youth is up against problems, the like of which did not exist in the past.
“Youth in turmoil“, “Unrest among youth“, “Youth in revolt“, Angry young man“ – these epithets are not just literary coinage or journalistic flourishes, but a vociferous voices of protest of vast segments of populations that have seen and suffered the all-round erosion of values and the wreckage of their dreams.