Global media looks at why the two Dhurandhar movies have invited criticism. BBC takes close look at India’s 'educated & employed but struggling' middle class.
In 'Breakpoint', author Saurabh Mukherjea—with Nandita Rajhansa and Sapana Bhavsar—reveals how the Indian economy has reached a breaking point, and charts the path forward.
A stunted middle class may be a direct result of extreme inequality. Folks at the top don’t see teeming masses as a meaningful market, except for utilities, soap, short videos, and personal loans.
For India to sustain strong economic growth, policymakers must go beyond optics and tax cuts. Only then will the “middle-class bonanza” translate into real economic momentum.
International media also reports on the financial revolution brewing among the middle class & the north-south divide over the 2026 delimitation proposal.
Union Budget 2025-26 has clear aims: accelerate growth, enhance the spending power of India’s rising middle class, invigorate private sector investment & uplift household sentiment.
Indian middle class seethes at growing phenomenon of political parties taking their tax money and spraying it among the more numerous poorer classes to buy their votes.
Many who were so worried about the decline in the rupee over a decade ago are unwilling to speak up. They were tigers when Manmohan Singh was in charge. Now they are mice.
Global media also reported on once-a-decade exposition of St. Francis Xavier's 472-yr-old corpse in Goa, reflecting on how Christian community's being increasingly targeted in the country.
The Congress has promised Rs 50,000 assistance to each woman but as we've seen in many recent elections, voters seem to be conscious of the proverb: 'A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.'
Fears that an escalation of the conflict could heighten a fuel squeeze & endanger the economy unnerved traders, with NYT reporting Iran stopped negotiating a truce with the US.
French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
The author is not only taking a blinkered view but the thought process too suffers from a myopia. A democracy is supposed to address the concerns of minorities and the majority simultaneously. Though Hindus are in majority india can never turn majoritarian precisely because Hinduism or Hindutva is not exclusivity.And remember discarding appeasement does not amount to majoritarianism. Even RSS has said multiple times from different platforms that Indians may pursue different path to God but our ancestors were same. So please do your home work.
Since the last 3-4 years, majority of the Indian Middle Class people don’t go to polling booths to cast their votes. They’re fed up seeing the systematic organized corruptions initiated by political class and administration, and their line of favoring big corporations in expense of the interests of the common people. .That’s why vote percentage has been drastically gone down in urban areas..
Note- The picture published with this article most probably is showing those people who are the official supporters of BJP itself, they’re not the floating voters of middle class
Stunningly baseless article. Zero cross verifiable statements. Zero data backing. Ideally, any article needs to be based on references of objective data from trusted non-partisan sources. This person doesn’t even bother to think on verifiable opinions.
The author is not only taking a blinkered view but the thought process too suffers from a myopia. A democracy is supposed to address the concerns of minorities and the majority simultaneously. Though Hindus are in majority india can never turn majoritarian precisely because Hinduism or Hindutva is not exclusivity.And remember discarding appeasement does not amount to majoritarianism. Even RSS has said multiple times from different platforms that Indians may pursue different path to God but our ancestors were same. So please do your home work.
Since the last 3-4 years, majority of the Indian Middle Class people don’t go to polling booths to cast their votes. They’re fed up seeing the systematic organized corruptions initiated by political class and administration, and their line of favoring big corporations in expense of the interests of the common people. .That’s why vote percentage has been drastically gone down in urban areas..
Note- The picture published with this article most probably is showing those people who are the official supporters of BJP itself, they’re not the floating voters of middle class
Stunningly baseless article. Zero cross verifiable statements. Zero data backing. Ideally, any article needs to be based on references of objective data from trusted non-partisan sources. This person doesn’t even bother to think on verifiable opinions.