This compassionate, practical guide meets Gen Z and young millennials where they are—lost, burnt-out, or stuck—and offers clear rituals, emotional practices and identity-healing tools to reclaim purpose. It blends evidence, personal storytelling and small actionable steps so you can quietly unlearn the noise, remember your deepest aims, and build daily rituals that anchor your truth. Why does a generation feel lost and behind? I start almost every conversation with the same question: do you feel like everyone else has a map you missed? If you’re reading this, chances are you do. That sense of lag—of being “behind”—isn't sheer laziness or moral failure. It's a cultural symptom. Young people today grew up being measured by timelines that were designed for a different era: stable jobs, home ownership in your thirties, a predictable curriculum of success. The timelines shifted; life didn't come with clearer instructions—only a louder sound...
I read Shailendra Jha’s Press 9 for a Crime with my late-night lamp on; it’s a razor-sharp, humane thriller set between East Delhi and scam hubs in Southeast Asia . Fast, funny, and disturbingly real, it follows Aseem’s risky rescue of his missing brother. This review analyses theme, craft, character work and why the book both alarms and entertains and lingers. Why did this book grab me at once? Have you ever opened a book at midnight because the world outside felt suddenly less interesting than the danger on the page? That was me with Press 9 for a Crime . As someone who reads a lot of thrillers, I’m picky about two things: believable stakes, and characters I care about. Jha gives me both within the first ten pages. The opening scenes place you in a cramped East Delhi neighbourhood and you instantly feel the hum of small-town hopes: the son who promises escape through a “job in Bangkok”, the ledger of family debts, the refrigerator light in a kitchen where dreams are rationed...