The government’s political calculus seems to favour the affluent and the marginalised, while largely disregarding India's middle class and its aspirations and concerns.
A growing brigade of young Indians is trading military and govt job dreams for a steady paycheck as private guards. For many, it’s better than working for Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon.
Pew study says Covid pandemic and its economic fall out saw global middle class population reduce by 54 million, South Asia sees highest increase in poverty numbers.
The millions of poor going home are a wonderful new generation of aspirational, working-class Indians. Modi and his government didn’t account for their fate.
When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
No governments cater to the middle class. All indulge in competitive socialism. Freebies, subsidies, reservation, loan waivers, and corruption are the staples of governments.
Everyone remembers the middle class and the tax payer, when out of power.
No governments cater to the middle class. All indulge in competitive socialism. Freebies, subsidies, reservation, loan waivers, and corruption are the staples of governments.
Well, the assumption here is that the Middle Class feels forgotten and exploited.
To the naked eye, it seems as if the Middle Class is quite happy dancing outside mosques on Ram Navami and digging under mosques to find temples.