'World doesn’t reward entitlement': Anupam Mittal says India's Gen Z has had it too easy

Has India’s Gen Z had it too easy? Shark Tank India judge and People Group CEO Anupam Mittal thinks so and says their real character will only emerge when crisis finally strikes.

In a LinkedIn post, Mittal reflected on how younger Indians have come of age in an era defined by growth, not disruption. “India’s Gen Z and millennials have grown up in an economy that only went one way, up,” he wrote. “No wars. No recessions. No real resets.” Advertisement

While this upward run has created a generation flush with optimism and access, Mittal warned it may also have bred a dangerous kind of comfort. “That’s comforting but also dangerous,” he noted. “Because comfort breeds complacency.”

He acknowledged the common perception that today’s youth are entitled, calling it “circumstantially true”—but