Summary
Daily headlines in the capital, New Delhi, highlight the runaway stock market, Bollywood's soft superpower and India's 36 dollar billionaires - more than in any other Asian nation. The rest of the working population - some 435 million people - are part of "the unorganised sector": toiling on the land, or driving a taxi, or running a chai stall, or working as menial household labour. There is rural migration, too, where the sons of tillers leave to eke out a precarious existence as security guards and drivers in the big cities.
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Growing Pains
For India's newspapers and television, the country's story is of a resurgent nation of 1.1 billion people taking its rightful place in the new world order. Daily headlines in the capital, New Delhi, highlight the runaway stock market, Bollywood's soft superpower and India's 36 dollar billionaires - more than in any other Asian nation.
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