Dear Aastha,

What you mention is most heartening.

I have no intention of giving up the fight to create a saner, more just world for all of us. I believe very strongly that we are at the start of a period of great change in our political and social history.

The next decade will forever transform India. If we seize the moment, the opportunity, we will perhaps be able to steer the country in an appropriate and desirable direction. If we do not, we are likely to condemn your generation and the next to even more widespread cynicism and pessimism. And even worse, apathy. Staying aloof from, and non-participation.