He breaks it down ruthlessly: a ₹50K monthly salary eaten up by ₹20K rent, ₹10K EMIs, ₹5K in weekend splurges—and barely ₹1K ...

Rich India, Poor Indians? ... India’s GDP per capita stands at roughly $2880, but this is a mean average. If you remove the top 1% of earners from the calculation, ...

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has raised the alarm over growing economic inequality in India, warning that wealth is ...

In a scathing LinkedIn post, founder of Tunerlabs, Shyam Achutan, painted a grim picture for the Indian middle class in the ...

As rich are growing richer, poor are becoming poorer. Be it even slight inflation, Covid-lockdown, floods, chaos/conflict/tension or any such factor, the poor are the worst hit.

Should India take from the rich, give the poor? A new election flashpoint. As India enters the second half of its giant election, wealth distribution has emerged as a central campaign faultline ...

Ms. Krishnan, an Indian journalist specializing in health issues, wrote from Goa, India. In April a pregnant woman died at a hospital in Kandy, Sri Lanka, of complications blamed on an anesthetic ...

Between the rich and the poor, the middle is stuck. By Monika Halan . Jan 10, 2025 10:20 PM IST . ... The good news is that while middle and rich India have begun to vote more than the poor ...

Ten years later, as Modi contests for a rare third term, the gap between rich and poor in India – already significant in 2014 – has widened into a canyon, economic researchers warn.

But a first-time visitor to India will notice at once that many people there are painfully poor, and that the suggestion that they number scarcely 1 in 10 of the population — or lower — is absurd.

The gap between India’s rich and poor is startling. Consider the US$120 million prewedding celebrations for tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s son: The lad wore a US$1 million watch, a superstar received US$6 ...