India, Sept. 9 -- India's Generation Z is often discussed as though it were a single, easily identifiable generation with one political temperament, one cultural vocabulary and one common understanding of the future. That assumption is convenient, but it is also misleading. Gen Z is not a monolith; it is a remarkably contradictory generation, shaped by technology, social media, economic uncertainty, changing family structures, rapidly shifting cultural expectations and an unprecedented exposure to information. It is a generation that can be deeply political and completely indifferent to politics within the same family, sometimes even within the same individual. It can be fiercely rebellious in one part of life and remarkably conservative...