1. "Their food preferences may not match those of their parents"
2. "They may not keep up some central religious practices of their parents"
3. "They are at home neither in the middle class nor in the working-class"
4. "Their political ideologies may differ from those of their parents"
Their political ideologies may differ from those of their parents
"1. "Organic cultural capital"
2. "Professional arrogance and social distance"
3. "Evolving social transformation"
4. "Breakdown of family relationships"
Evolving social transformation
"1. "They are thrown into an alien value system"
2. "Their families have not read the rules in corporate manuals"
3. "They have no one to guide them through the corporate maze"
4. "They miss the ‘mom and pop orthodoxy’"
They are thrown into an alien value system
"1. "Diplomacy"
2. "Compliance with orders"
3. "Enterprise and initiative"
4. "High risk taking"
Compliance with orders
"1. "It socializes children early into the norms of middle class institutions"
2. "It helps them learn the language of universities and corporations"
3. "It creates a sense of enlightenment in middle-class children"
4. "It develops bright kids into Straddlers "
It develops bright kids into Straddlers
"1. "Should the state governments wrest more space from the Union, before considering the panchayati system"
2. "Should rights similar to those that the States managed to get be extended to panchayats as well"
3. "Should the single party system which has withered away be brought back at the level of the States"
4. "Should the States get ""their pound of flesh"" before allowing the Union government to pass any more laws"
Should rights similar to those that the States managed to get be extended to panchayats as well
"1. "The ways in which the democratic multiparty system works in an assertively pluralistic society like India's are flawed"
2. "The mechanisms that our federal system uses at the Union government level to deal with States are imperfect"
3. "The instruments that have ensured federalism at one level, have been used to achieve the opposite at another"
4. "The Indian Constitution and the spirit of the Indian polity are fatally flawed"
The instruments that have ensured federalism at one level, have been used to achieve the opposite at another
"1. "Our grassroots development at the panchayat level is now driven by the ""foreign aid"" syndrome"
2. "Panchayati raj is firmly entrenched at the lower level of our federal system of governance"
3. "A truly federal polity has not developed since PRIs have not been allowed the necessary political space"
4. "The Union government and State-level parties are engaged in a struggle for the protection of their respective rights"
A truly federal polity has not developed since PRIs have not been allowed the necessary political space
"1. "The weakening of the local institutions' ability to plan according to their needs"
2. "The increasing demands made on elected local leaders to match central grants with local contributions"
3. "The empowering of the panchayat system as implementers of schemes from State capitals"
4. "The process by which the prescribed Central schemes are reformulated by local elected leaders"
The weakening of the local institutions' ability to plan according to their needs
"1. "A lack of excess"
2. "Simplicity of form"
3. "Expression of intellect"
4. "Mystic spirituality"
Mystic spirituality
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