Prarthna Singh and Snigdha Poonam
2024: Notes from a Generation
TARQ
Mumbai

With the 18th Lok Sabha elections, 2024 has been a significant year for India. Nearly two-fifths of the country’s 1.4 billion citizens are under the age of 25—a significant fraction of the voting pool. Photographer Prarthna Singh and writer Snigdha Poonam, two artists concerned with precarious political trends in India, spent five years traversing towns and cities they have lived in, in order to interview young people between the last elections and the most recent ones. The question they asked was: how do young people—those with the potential to play a crucial role in the future of the country—think and feel?