As another reviewer notes, major stories about India in the mainstream US press are not numerous (except when it comes to America picking India to share nuclear energy expertise with). Those in IT, or who have dealings with IT companies, might think the country overrun with enough tech-savvy youth to dominate the world market; yet the plainly stated figures show how unreal that uninformed perception is, when most of those surveyed find globalisation as much a threat as an opportunity. But as the article ruefully admits, the hope that young people will reform Indian society seems based on nothing more than their expression of a general youthful optimism---an optimism that does not quite square with concern for their own individual futures, their marriage or career prospects, or their current state of national (much less world) knowledge. (That "one-third of those polled could not say what August 15 was all about"---India's day of independence, which one could say was as important as the 4th of July, but far more recent---recalled another poll in the States, which averred that most citizens could identify the Three Stooges but not the three branches of American government.) The old urge to get off the farm, out of the little town where you were born, seems to have universal appeal, however little one might know in detail about what one might find to replace it. (Note how the urban poor prefer their current location to moving elsewhere, feeling the city offers more chances.) Yes, one would like to know more about the interviews for the State of the Nation Survey were conducted, about the format of the questions and the structure of inquiry---one always does---but for its length, the article tells much that this reader had no way to even imagine: it is all news to me, and worth your time, too.