He is the Founder & CEO of CrackVerbal, a competitive exam preparation platform. Arun is a MCA from Gujarat University, and B.Sc – Physics from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Prior to CrackVerbal, he was the Senior Manager - Consulting Services at Talisma Corporation.

India is going through generational shifts too, but nobody is talking about them. A person born in 1974 is very different from a person born in 1994. We know this, but we cannot put our finger on what the differences are. Let us take a look at some of them –

Work Horses: Born Before 1960

You were born to the era when Independence was still fresh, and you had a lot of pride in ‘nation building’. Working hard was a virtue – everything else be damned. You probably believed that you had a duty towards creating an India that would stand on its own in the world. You were possibly a graduate and really that was the ‘edge’ you needed to have over others. Having ‘honours’ degree was a big deal, and perhaps you got a job in one of the Nehru-vian PSUs or a nationalized bank. You were destined to work for the rest of your life in the same office.

Sporting a HMT watch, you rode on your trusted Bajaj scooter to work. And on returning home in the evening, watched Doordarshan on your black-and-white TV. You never made any investments except for your Provident Fund (PF) and savings bank account (of which you religiously updated the passbook). You probably did not see a ‘landline’ phone and were conversant with the term ‘trunk call’. For you, communication meant inland letters, and for anything urgent – there was always the telegram. In general, you were okay waiting for a few days or a few weeks for anything because you were happy it was at least happening in the first place!