The Great Indian Middle Class--??

Its been abt 7 to 8 years now since the economy actually opened up to foreign investments(although officially in 1994). Since the rise of number of opportunities in the Indian "MNC" industry there has been a rise in a totally new genre of people and section of the society. The timid Indian middle class has attained a much more high profiled and what the call a "great" status. This greatness is all due to the opportunities given to the middle class because of large number of jobs in the private sector. Now the rise in these jobs has sent a new message into the society, i.e. study well and get some great degrees to get tagged along with your name and you will have enough money to blow your minds off. Not realising that the work that they do is actually going for the upliftment and the profit of big corporations that are the native of some other country. But this should not bother them for the salary reaches into the bank account on the last day of the month.

But in all this money minting scenario somewhere this suddenly risen class has forgotten its roots. It tends to move away from its own lifestyle to that of the so called "western" lifestyle. Some people may be offenced by the name that I have given to the lifestyle. So being politically very correct I will name it as the "corporate" lifestyle. Now the basic feature of this corporate lifestyle is to work for 5 days a week and party for the rest of the week. The work part may not be true but the party factor is a must. For if you don't then you are outcasted (now this is a feature that my fellow country men or the whole world have not forgotten or can never be taken out of them) and considered wierd.

The great Indian middle class now prefers to spend off their holidays in a suttle and quiet place rather than sitting home. They tend to have forgotten the necessity to work for the society and to work to improve it. Ofcourse this scenario tends to naturally turn opposite if you get a chance to be on the Page 3 of a famous daily. But the point is if you are earning all the money that you could not even have dreamed of then please make it a poiunt to give something back to society. For it is this society that has helped you rise and provided you with what you call the basic ammenities. Work towards making a difference rather than just sitting ona beach and sipping martinis and enjoying your weekend.