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Small wonder that many unemployed young people, especially men, have become cynical and detached, describing themselves as people "doing nothing" or engaged only in timepass.

"Well, our life has just become about timepass," they would say.

Jeffrey is author of several books on India, including Timepass: youth, class and the politics of waiting in India.

She was mourning the loss of not just a favorite “timepass” — Indian parlance for a frivolous activity — but of a new way of seeing herself.

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