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Selectronic recruits from its lower-middle-class Delhi neighbourhood.
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Perhaps learning from the tax battles of the West, Delhi is also playing a class-warfare tune.
WSJ: Review & Outlook: India Keeps Feeding the Beast
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It is a neighborhood of migrants who work as construction laborers, building apartment houses for Delhi's blossoming middle class.
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One private school in east Delhi has CCTV cameras in every class which allow the headmaster to monitor his teachers.
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Curiously, prices have yet to see a commensurate correction and, coupled with mortgage rates of over 10%, have put home ownership in cities like Mumbai and Delhi beyond the reach of the middle class.
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The action takes place in Delhi, where a pair of middle-class parents (Lillete Dubey and Naseeruddin Shah) work themselves into a froth over the nuptials of their daughter (Vasundhara Das).
NEWYORKER: Monsoon Wedding
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Pol says he put up "several hundred thousand dollars" organizing tests for workers in Dubai, New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, conceding that he flew first-class and stayed in nice hotels.
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The Mahindra E2O is a four-seater hatchback targeted at upper-middle-class families in need of a second car in congested cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, where it expected to first go on sale.
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Neat stacks of medical text books, a sharply-designed carrier bag from a clothes store, an English novel and pairs of smart shoes in the draughty bedroom of the 23-year-old Delhi gang rape victim, tell the story of a woman determined to make the leap to a middle class lifestyle for her and her family.
BBC: Tragedy of Delhi rape victim seeking better life
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In the same week, Lufthansa announced it would deploy the first upgraded 747s -- with a first class configuration that includes a bed and a seat -- on flights from Frankfurt to Mumbai and Delhi.
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