> Avy, your whole story sounds remarkably like USA hippies!

Jackie hippies were happy?

Jholawalas were deep in their thinking, passionate in their emotions and definite in their unhappiness. A happy Jholawala just wasn't. (as Shanks says depression was the fashion)

They existed around 70s-80s (or maybe even 60s, I would not know), before economic liberalisation when India was supposedly "non-aligned".