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Young Indians' endless struggle

Being driven to abandon Indian middle-class values?

Young Indian struggle
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Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Ajit Balakrishnan
I find myself squirming with mental disquiet when I hear headlines like “Imagine who makes Rs 28 crore a year as salary…,” or “highest-paid CEOs in India…” and they go on to list a dozen making Rs 20 crore a year or more … and all this about Indian-national CEOs (chief executive officers) of companies based in India. Is there a new India dawning, in which every Indian has an income many times what we are used to, or is all this happening in a small niche and our media, or at least some of it, is headlining these to
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