Getting rid of old men may not be easy.

"India has 50% of its population below the age of 25. So there are more than 700 million Indians alive today who should expect to be alive 50 years from now," wrote Biju Dominic. On the other hand, "The average age of the Indian cabinet is around 60 years. It is very difficult to get people who are in their 70s to think of a future that is even 10 years ahead. Their common response is: 'I don't expect to be alive then, so I don't think about it.'" Even if these old men are conscious of their mortality most of them have children so they should not have to be told by 16 year old Greta Thunberg that climate change will be disaster for everyone. Getting elected is an easy way to amass enormous wealth without having to account for it. Since elected politicians control the police and investigating agencies, such as the Criminal Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which was described as a "caged parrot" by the Supreme Court, winning an election gives impunity from serious crimes. Not surprising that the highest number of criminals are in the ruling party the BJP. The BJP also has the highest number of elected politicians with charges of crimes against women. "Every politician knows that losing an election is equivalent of death," because you may end up in prison, as former Home Minister P Chidambaram discovered. India has some seriously rich people but even they cannot match the power wielded by politicians, which is why over 5,000 dollar millionaires fled from India in 2018. Those who have businesses in India are busy safeguarding their wealth by transferring it to trusts in other countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is unhappy about not being able to win the respect of the Lutyens Delhi crowd, but that maybe because his party the BJP is not significantly different from the Congress, which it replaced. Not only has he taken ownership of almost all policies of the Congress by changing their names, the BJP has also adopted the same corrupt tactics he accused the Congress of, wrote SA Aiyer. "At times, age imparts decay, dementia and derangement," wrote S Shanghvi, which is why Young India is protesting. Not just in India. In the US, older people are put off contemptuously by the young with the phrase "OK, Boomer", referring to the baby boomer generation. The older generation thinks that the young live in a smartphone world and are unable to socialise with people. "Roughly a quarter of Japanese between 20 and 49 are single, according to government data." Europe has got rid of old men and selected women in top jobs. Finland has gone a step further. Prime Minister Sanna Marin is a 34 year old woman and she has formed a coalition with 5 parties, all led by women. "But a study reveals queens have been 39 percentage points more likely than kings to wage war over the centuries." God help us.