Tag: middle class

• Incredible India: Through a newsman’s eyes

  India is an unlikely economic giant. The vast majority of its people don’t even have steady jobs, points out Edward Luce in his insightful book on India. Fewer than 40 million of its 470 million workforce are employed in the “organized sector”, which offers job protection and other benefits. The government and the public sector…

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  Abhijit

  July 23, 2009

  Books, India

  caste, edward luce, Financial Times, india, IT, manmohan singh, middle class, sonia gandhi, technology, village, workforce

• Updike, the most sensuous writer in English

  The most sensuous writer in the English language is dead. No one wrote more sensuous prose than John Updike. He carried his lyricism into his 70s. He was 76 when he died yesterday. The cause was lung cancer, according to his publisher, Alfred A Knopf. He was – for his style and views perhaps –…

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  Abhijit

  January 28, 2009

  Books

  barack obama, henry bech, john updike, language, middle class, prose, rabbit, rabbit angstrom, sex, suburb, writer, writing