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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Unemployment and unlimited data pack — UP’s youth are neither angry nor idle -Jyoti Yadav

Unemployment and unlimited data pack — UP’s youth are neither angry nor idle -Jyoti Yadav

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published Published on Feb 12, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 13, 2022

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Afternoons are to charge phone batteries, evenings are to play digital games in parks, and nights are to climb rooftops, catch network, and escape into videos and Insta reels.

Prayagraj/ Lucknow: Afternoons are for charging phone batteries up to 100 per cent, evenings are for playing digital games in sportsgrounds, and nights are for climbing rooftops to catch the network signal. This is when mobile data is the cheapest and fastest, and so it’s the perfect time to plunge into the three Ps: political propaganda, pornography, and potboilers like the action-drama Pushpa, which is currently all the rage.

This is how many among Uttar Pradesh’s “generation nowhere”, a term that scholar Craig Jeffrey has used to describe educated, unemployed youth in India, spend their days.

There are few job prospects, college degrees gather more dust every year, and there is usually no family money to bank on, but these youth do have something to keep the abyss at bay: their standard daily quota of 2GB of data.

A generation ago, masses of educated but jobless 20-somethings might have produced a wave of social anger, but while there are sporadic protests about unemployment, these tend to be siloised, like the violence that erupted last month in UP and Bihar over railway recruitments.

The more pervasive trend in the 2020s among unemployed youth, however, is the pursuit of distraction. When anger or despair do arise in this brave new world, they are usually quickly scrolled away and quietened by hours on Instagram reels.

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ThePrint.in, 12 February, 2022, https://theprint.in/india/unemployment-and-unlimited-data-up-jobless-youth-are-neither-angry-nor-idle/828615/?fbclid=IwAR1ZyIwkGOqg18YorNgG9muOlfjKfBswpJUPI6LjHtoHFvg5xR1Wrmm9_iw


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