Dinesh Khanna Indian Photographer specialises in Portrait Food Travel and Interiors Photography

â€œchanges were hard. It was like I was giving birth to a completely new person. At times, I really wanted to, and at times I completely hated it and just wanted to forget everything and go back to whom I was. It was too complicated, and I wished that life could just be straightforward and simple. â€ - Myra Khanna

â€œAs much as money doesn't make the world go around, it definitely alters one's own world. My situation is different from a lot others in India, for the simple reason, I've been raised in a middle class family in a metropolitan city. And not a lot of children, are privileged to grow up under the same circumstances.â€ - Nayan Srivastava

â€œBoys became creatures you didn't stand fifty feet away from when I reached the seventh grade. I changed as a person hugely, because I matured from a little girl to a teenager, but the issues that seemed such a big deal then, now just make me laugh.â€ - Kokila Beri

â€ When i started playing a lot more music, and thinking about it seriously as a career. When my grandmother started losing her memory, made me see a lot of things about life. Convincing me as an atheist. Another event was a major car crash that my family and i were a part of in New York. It made me a lot more careful about things, but it also made me a lot more carefree about a lot of things.â€ - Amar

â€œAt the age of 15, when the metro came to Gurgaon, for me was when I grew up. Using public transport on my own was a major factor that contributed to me becoming independent. But being a girl, I grew up between the ages of 13 and 15 various incidents caused me to evolve emotionally.â€ - Vaani Chopra

â€With every evening that went by when my brother and I would stay at home alone, I felt more responsible for myself and for another person. With every long drive to our next vacation destination, my patience level would increase and my taste in music changed. I started to listen to the lyrics of every song. â€œ - Titli Chakravarty

â€œDance has been my passion, and like the core of my being since I discovered it a few years ago. It has helped me find my focus every time I went through any emotional or physical ups and downs during my teen years.â€ - Shohini

â€œFrom as far back as I can remember I have wanted to be a doctor so all my energies have been channeled into studying for that. But I do love to play my drums . . .â€ - Jisnabh

â€œI stopped being an individual and started identifying myself as just a member of a group. At that time, I only wanted to fit in, rather than be myself. But with time, that has changed too. Change is constant, and Iâ€™m still young. I know that somewhere along the line Iâ€™m going to change again, and those changes are going to turn me into a whole different person. â€œ - Rhea

â€œMy circumstances are completely different from all the other teenagers in India because I left school in the eighth grade changing my whole life style. I started traveling and exploring myself, doing things I always wanted to instead of wasting my time in school.â€ - Joey

â€œI donâ€™t really feel like saying anything much.â€ - Rishabh

â€œWhen I was 13, my mom was diagnosed with cancer and I thought there was no cure to this illness, and that this was just the end. i definitely changed as a person. I realized the actual importance of my mother. it slowly hit me that everything would be so incomplete without her.â€ - Atia

â€ i feel that my teen years have not been very different as compared to others. i feel that these days teenagers are more or less being influenced all over the world, there isnt much difference between those in the west and here in India.â€ - Sanjit

â€œHow I wish at time I could hold on to the simple joys of being a child and not having to bother with all this growing up stuff. But whether I want it or not, stuff happens . . .â€ - Trisha

â€œOther than the first time I was referred to as 'sir' by a person from a call centre, I cant really think of any one event which made me feel like things have changed. I guess I just matured over time.â€ - Vishnu