India has long been referred to as a country that has no place for women. This has become more evident over the past few years, when our countrymen and government have done everything in their collective power to make sure women know their place. India stopped being a country for minorities a while ago too, and has forever been a hellhole for those unlucky enough to carry the burden of caste on their shoulders.

I believe it’s time to add youth to that illustrious, fast-growing list. India isn’t a place for the young either, if what you see and hear are anything to go by. Let’s put aside the open violence against teenagers that has now become a matter of course. Let’s just pretend it isn’t important enough to discuss unless the people being assaulted happen to be relatives of ours. Let’s ignore unemployment too, and housing, and the bleak future that stares millions of graduates in the face, because to mention these things is to invite attacks from older men who don’t believe India even existed before 2014.