The recent Vodafone ads featuring dancers Shanta and Dhananjayan have made retirement and old age look cool. The couple are in their 70s and the whole series of ads with them exploring Goa is a sign of what people are expecting their retirements to be. Gone are the days when retirement meant staying put at home on an easy chair. These days, people are anyway living well into their 80s and even 90s in good health to boot. At the same time, aspirations of many 30-year old is to retire by 50, without realising that they may be living for a lot many years in retirement than the years they would have worked.