India is middle class....

I have been brought up without the silver spoons and the caviar. I have had a life that has thrown challenges towards me. If I claim to be open and accepting of the gay culture then I also act like the hypocritical closet homophobe where I will take offence if people think I am gay. If I think of a huge family after marriage with cousins and friends and everyone, I also get scared of the huge commitment that the union holds. If I eat at fancy places, I sit cross legged on the floor and eat with my hands on occasions. If I have a great place to stay I also have a dilapidated locality that surrounds me and doesn’t justify my stand of the good house. Even though I will love the silver spoon and the caviar my taste and comfort will always lie in the home cooked sambar chawal. I have a mind of my own that thinks and frames opinions, and I listen to the society time and again, trying to accommodate the many conflicting thoughts that lead to confusion. This is middle class, I am middle class.

India has pretty much the overtones of the middle class. She had to start from a scratch so she values money. She will be as careful with it as possible. She is proud to be secular and the largest democratic nation, but she recites sagas of riots and blood baths over religion portraying the hypocrisy. She hopes for world peace and is inviting to the idea with her neighbors, but she will still be skeptical of the very idea of it. She will steal with a conscience and she lies and gets caught. She aspires to eat the caviar off the silver spoons because she has seen her peers enjoy that, but you can see her being clumsy at it, almost reckless. Her comfort lies with her land; probably that’s why she never endeavored to capture lands like other countries. With the richness, she has lots of deteriorating aspects she is embarrassed of and can’t justify with the growth projections year on year. If she looks to emulate, she holds her ground. She gives air to thoughts and independence but has mess ups when accommodating everything. India is middle class.

If it were up to me I would still want to be born a middle class and live most of my life as one. Never really have it easy and never give up on trying. Never really compromise and always hope. India- she aspires to inspire, just like the middle class.