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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, ...
India is poised to become the world’s third largest economy. Yet, behind the headlines about rising GDP lies a sobering truth ...
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has raised the alarm over growing economic inequality in India, warning that wealth is ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
In a scathing LinkedIn post, founder of Tunerlabs, Shyam Achutan, painted a grim picture for the Indian middle class in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Most of India earns so little, just ₹2.9 lakh a year puts you in the top 10%. ... The truth is that, particularly in India, the rich and the poor exist on different planets.