India, June 24 -- By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam
There is a particular variety of human being that the great Indian experiment has produced with remarkable consistency over the last several decades and I have the dubious honour of being a specimen in reasonably good working condition.
We are the middle-class Indians, a tribe so distinct in our habits that anthropologists, had they bothered to study us, would have written entire treatises on our peculiarities. We are the people who will fly business class on an upgrade and still pocket the complimentary slippers, dental kit and that strange little eye mask which we will never use but cannot bear to leave behind.
My education in middle class economics began at the dining table, where my mother ...