As a generation growing up with more choices, greater access to information, and a stronger vocabulary around identity, boundaries, and mental well-being, freedom can look very different from what it did for their parents.
But has having more choices actually made them feel freer?
Has it given them more agency over their present and future?
As India celebrates its 80th Independence Day tomorrow, we asked young people what freedom means to them—and what they have today that their parents’ generation didn’t.
This is what they have to say.
