Comments on: Seven average Indians

Seven average Indians

goo — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:19:01 -0800

Liberalisation's children. The Financial Times interviews seven 24-year-old Indians, all of the average age but of very different circumstances.

By: letitrain

letitrain — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:23 -0800

The Musahar literacy rates quoted in the article are shocking, but I was more shocked to read that those who dare venture to school are mocked by their teachers. Does this really happen?

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:52:38 -0800

I'm confused, the age of 24 is average? Wha?

By: metaldark

metaldark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:27:52 -0800

The article mentions the [mean?] average age of india's population is 24 years.

By: metaldark

metaldark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:30:09 -0800

I don't feel much richer than the government engineer riding the bus to work.. Purchasing power-wise, would India make a good emigration target for an American IT worker?

By: jb

jb — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:11:45 -0800

But I do feel much richer than the man with a business degree who must work two jobs and lives in a "makeshift bedroom in a "godown" – or storage area".

By: homunculus

homunculus — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:55:02 -0800

Gates separate India's good life and the servants' slums