Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become an idol to India’s new middle class. Photo: Reuters
Opinion
Opinion
Asian Angle by Vir Sanghvi
As old values die, how will India’s new Modi-loving middle class shape the future?
They’re young, suspicious of English speakers, pro-Hindu, disdainful of traditional media, leery of the concepts of equality that once governed Indian political and social thinking – and their numbers are growing