Articles about the "new" India, the one that is shining, the one that is at the cusp of becoming the next super-power , the one that has shown jaw-dropping rise in economic growth, have become a regular feature in magazines and newspapers across the world. (In the Indian newspapers, it often borders on gloating). A recent article stated that the current middle class in India is equal to the total population of the United States. This, quiet obviously is not the result of the super rich sharing their bounty with their less fortunate brethren, as the mighty socialist phase of post-independence era promised us would happen. The reasons are many but not surely the generosity of the "haves". I am not an economist...in fact never studied economics in school either. What I can share is what I see around me. Sometimes that is the "shining" youthful side of India and at other times the less than perfect,old hurting, aching bones that is India.