Seventeen-year-old Niharika is juggling multiple roles.

Have you noticed the sheer number of television soaps revolving around teen-centric themes lately? Well, you’re not alone.

Gym at 6 am, shower, make-up and dress by 7, calorie calculated breakfast by 8. Before heading out, a final look in the mirror. Lustrous hair: check, glossy skin: check, manicured nails and plucked eyebrows: check! That’s the routine off the pages of 23-year-old Nayan Bora’s life. “My girlfriend found my stubble pokey, so I went for a clean-shaven look and she loved it.

Though the fad for size zero seems to have faded away, it has left behind a scarred Gen X, touchy about weight and size and unsure of the physical image they present.

Almost every day, Ankita Malhotra logs on to her Facebook account to catch up with friends and relatives. The 16-year-old from Chennai says that she’s careful not to accept random invitations.

What’s on your to-do list this April? Picking up the perfect farewell dress? Filling out tedious applications? Coordinating the last string of slumber parties?

For better or for worse, the single ‘Friday’ has made 13-year-old Rebecca Black a tween sensation overnight. All she had to do was upload her self- penned novelty tune heavily loaded with auto-tune and ironically tagged with an abysmal video onto YouTube, and BANG! The next morning and 60 million hits later Rebecca Black became a star.