ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the lifestyle and habits of Indian youth. It seeks to explore the youth’s ways of living and doing things, and how they are being impacted by the inter-connected processes of globalisation, liberalisation, consumerism, urbanisation and exposure to newer forms of communication technology. The chapter reports study findings related to the nature of living arrangements of India’s youth, their style preferences, their leisure lifestyles, their health-related behaviours, their engagement with various forms of media, both traditional and new, and their religious practices. Broadly, the chapter highlights that youth’s lifestyle preferences, practices and interests are a mix of both the old and the new.
