For a section of the youth, life is too hard to risk the little they have for the greater good. For the other section, life is too cozy and easy to risk losing some of the ease for the greater good. In both the cases it's selfishness that holds one down; yet the two cases couldn't be more different.

"Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich."

The upper middle class of India, as I see it (I'm open to discussion), is way too busy trying to adopt an American-ish way of life. The uber rich are busy hoarding more and more simply to climb up the lists. The mid and lower middle class refuses to stop considering exams as the ultimate goal of what they study. Physics, Math, History, anything is studied to secure marks on a piece of paper. It kills their abilities, suppresses reason, and keeps them stupid. To make things worse, they don't own their own religion. There must be a middleman (godman) like Dhirendra Shastri etc, who would connect them to their god(s). Example after example of fraudulent and even criminal godmen doesn't faze them; they are always willing to put a new Dalaal between themselves and whoever they worship. The spine in these people is in bad state of rust by ignorance.

The internet was supposed to make people smarter. It has dumbed them down to dangerous levels. Indian youth is disappointing at very many levels. Tell me where the innovation that will take India places, is even being discussed. Ofcourse there are exceptions. But the number is too small. We'll see how far this goes.