India, Oct. 16 -- On a trip to Paris last week, I found myself in the middle of the ongoing student protests in Bastille Square. Amid the tear gas and loud chants calling for improvements in schools and protesting police violence, there was a palpable frustration among the protestors that space for job opportunities and upward mobility is shrinking. Meanwhile, widespread youth protests in India have focused on unreliable and corrupt examinations and now, the violation of voter rights. Is there a common underlying dynamic across these two movements and in other parts of the world where the youth are increasingly disenchanted with governments? Or does Leo Tolstoy's opening line from his 1877 novel Anna Karenina - "Happy families are all ali...