The true measure of a society’s health lies not in its soaring economic indices or expanding infrastructure but in how it safeguards and nurtures its youngest citizens. In a developing nation like India, where the demographic dividend is frequently hailed as a historical advantage, an underlying crisis is quietly reshaping the social fabric. When the energy of youth is misdirected into criminal paths, it ceases to be a dividend and transforms into a collective failure of institutional, familial and social systems.
Source ; The Statesman
