Crisis produces leaders. The best testimony is youth of Kerala who have led the response and recovery of the state from multiple recent natural calamities and on-going COVID19 pandemic. Skilled and socially committed youth has always shaped our society from as far back as the 19th century renaissance movement. The aspirations of youth across the world have changed. And it is time that Governments acknowledge and nurture their dreams and shape future leadership; a leadership which advances the values of modernity, professional ethos, humaneness, critical thinking, scientific temper, secularism, gender justice and egalitarianism. A leadership which contributes to human commons beyond partisan politics or sectarianism.