> > > (Don't want to make a big deal of it, but that quoting was weird) > > :) Have always used italics in my other mails, so just a question of habit I guess.
> Large scale middle class mobility is a recent phenomenon; since > perhaps the '90s[0]. The poor and destitute have been mobile for a > slightly longer period, but since these are the people that exist in > the margins of society anyway, society does not change its ways for > them. > > That to me is the problem. For instance, a guy from Bihar selling pani puri at a college in Chennai was interested in voting back home. Cared for it, followed politics back home closely and was disappointed that he could not vote. Honestly, if I had to choose between creating a way for him to vote, vis-a-vis someone in the peripatetic upper middle class, I would choose him. This view solidified after the dismal voting percentage South Mumbai registered after the terrorist attack in Nov '08.
