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Can the Entrepreneurial Spirit of youngsters change the world?

India’s face is changing fast and the driving force behind it is its young generation. Rather than being  content with a well paying job, many graduates are charting their own path and finding ways to fund  their aspirations. And, these aspirations are getting more individualistic, passionate and defined. Add to that, an appreciation of hard work has enabled the young generation to start their ventures  instead of taking the old conventional route. One fine example is the 33-year old tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, who has revolutionized the way  world communicates and also launched Internet.org to provide free basic mobile Internet  service across the globe -- even in the poorest and most remote areas. Women aren’t behind when it  comes to the entrepreneurial spirit. For instance, Yasmin Helal of Egypt, a former pro-basketball  player and engineer, runs Educate-Me, an initiative in Cairo that works to provide education to  underpriv...