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Remember sitting at the dinner table, textbooks open, while your parents reminded you that studies come first? Or being steered away from that music class because "it won't help in boards"? Most of us grew up with a version of that story.

And, without making a big announcement about it, urban India seems to be writing a different one for its own children.

A Mint survey of 10,022 people across 207 towns and cities, conducted with YouGov India and the Centre for Policy Research, found that only one in five parents wants to raise their kids the way they were raised.

The bigge...