Written by, Oct. 21 -- Akshita Pandey, Muskan Shah, Moitrayee Das

There is definitely something melancholic about going back somewhere you once called your own and realising that things are not quite the same anymore. The room looks the same; the furniture is still the same; the roads outside look the same as well. Something has changed. Defining the concept of "home" has gotten harder and harder in our ever-changing world.

The youth migrates to other cities for education and employment, family members are dispersed geographically, and the trend of temporary lodging has become widespread. Thus, the idea of home is no longer confined to its literal definition but rather to that of an emotional experience.

In Beck's analysis (2011), "the...