Is India’s middle-class looking beyond their next LCD TV?
Last week, I came across Simon Lazenbatt’s post on 2point6billion blog* about how India’s middle class may be failing the country.
Now the middle class in India has - at various times – been blamed for everything from the AIDS epidemic to pretending that everything around them is nice and happy.
Simon’s post – although broadly in a similar vein, was slightly different. It appeared to suggest that the middle class in India was apathetic and indifferent to the plight of the poor and the under-privileged and - possibly - perfectly happy for the status quo to continue so that they can enjoy their life and the comforts of middle class existence (such as having maids and servants at your beckoning).
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First some extracts from the article followed by my response:
