After a heated debate with my 10- year old, we settled to verify with the know-it-all Google. The question was whether I belonged to Gen X, Y or Z. Though we found contradictory statements, we finally agreed with what AI threw up with a beautiful image. I was declared a 'Gen Y or Millenial', ones born between 80s to mid 90s, typically the 90's kids. My mother who is apparently a 'Baby Boomer' as per the categorisation (wonder who named them that!) intervened stating it was called generation gap in their days, but hadn't heard of any specific names. In the 90s, when we were busy watching Tom and Jerry and Shaktimaan, we didn't realise that larger elements like globalisation and liberalisation were slowly changing our lifestyles, everything from the food we ate to the content we watched on television. Not having the 'Skip' option meant that we learnt to wait during Ad breaks; tolerance is really a virtue to practise. And we definitely used more of ou...
