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Change and Youth

The young have taken to the streets world over and taken the charge for leading change. The youth has taken to the streets all over the world for issues they sense are vital to their future. Increasingly, the younger generation has taken lead roles on the world stage in public protests and advocacy related to environment, corruption, rape, censorship, campaign for gun control in the US, issues of citizenship and extradition as in Hong Kong, and recently in India, in support of the continuing secular spirit of the nation. It is natural that the youth should be concerned, as they are the ones who hold the future in their hands. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Nobel Prize winner Malala   Yousafzai are universally recognized faces of youth activism. However, there are thousands of other young people working for various political, social and economic causes. Adults dominate the   political discourse, but young people have demonstrated that today’s youth are informed and co