Digital gap complicates generation gap

The young investors aren't excited about investment in property because it is an illiquid asset (won't help one buy concert tickets in the black market).

- DR J S KOHLI

Parenting has never been easy. Also, coping with parents by the offspring hasn't always been a piece of cake. Nowadays, the generation gap is widening because the pace of change in our lives is accelerating faster than the apple which fell on Newton's head. It is the handiwork of the most potent and persistent disruptors in history - digitalization, social media and internet.

So, the 20th century could be labelled as the modern equivalent of stone age. Gen Z would find it hard to believe that in the recent past, the booking of railway tickets entailed standing in the queue for a time period which was often longer than the time taken for the train journey.