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The grounding of India's middle class

Our Correspondent
Mar 13, 2013
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Will air travel in India ever become cheap again? Will typical Indian middle class families with noisy kids and neatly packed tiffin boxes of food be able to afford a plane ticket again? Just a few years back this was possible.

The thrifty train-traveling population of India that likes to pack homemade Poorie (oily form of bread) and Pickle to save money…

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