'Dreamers' book review: How young Indians are changing their world

A new book encapsulates the aspirations that are driving young 'dreamers' in India's swanky urban cities and their rural counterparts

Early in this book, a young entrepreneur — who takes great pride in being from a small village in Haryana but starting a global company — tells author Snigdha Poonam: “I want to lead humanity... I want to go outside the earth... I want to lead Mars.” The statement is illustrative of how millions of young Indians now think, as self-aware citizens of the fastest-growing large economy in the world and, if the cheerleaders are to be believed, an emerging global power. These young men and women, of the same generation as this reviewer, have earned — or have been