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As an Indian, you're spot on. Rebellion is the last thing you see among Indian youth. Most of my friends still can't tell their parents that they drink/party/have sex. We are a deeply conservative society and the middle class expectation is to get a stable job at a known name brand.



I had a close friend who refused to wear his Patka/Keski Dastaar anymore (sorry if this is incorrect, I'm going off of images on google) and was nearly disowned by his family.

The crazy thing is his family wasn't, to my eyes, even particularly religious.


Sometimes, this plays out in hilarious ways. Infosys and TCS, for example, are well-known companies in India. Tower Research, on the other hand, is not known at all. A friend got an offer from Tower Research (he went to the same college as Sundar Pichai), but his relatives were appalled that he would choose it over a code monkey role at Infosys.




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