India, Aug. 10 -- "Speak to the youth!" said one old man to another.

So, they found a radio, adjusted the microphone, cleared their throats and began speaking.

Unfortunately, most of the youth listening were over fifty.

Old man, while you were travelling around the globe, hugging and shaking hands with other old men and women, posing for photographs and telling one another how wonderfully you were leading your countries, the world back home changed.

The young no longer wait beside radios for wisdom to descend from above. They carry the world in their pockets. Before you finish making a claim, they have checked it. Before your spokesperson finishes denying something, they have found the video. Before you manufacture history, they have...