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LETTERS, Page 6India's Dynamic Middle Class
In your story on India's rising prosperity (WORLD, Nov. 13),
V.A. Pai Panandiker, director of New Delhi's Center for Policy
Research, predicts that in ten years about 300 million Indians will
be members of the middle class. However, the majority of that class
in no way measures up to the lowest level of the middle class in
the U.S. Furthermore, it is nearly certain that the jarring
juxtaposition of those living below the poverty line (about a third
of the country's 835 million people) and the "consumer-happy middle
class" will eventually result in a revolution as the poor strive
to improve their own sad economic state.
Louis J. Mihalyi
Forest Ranch, Calif.