India’s post-1991 middle-class growth model is reaching a breaking point. Saurabh Mukherjea’s Breakpoint: The Crisis of the Middle Class and the Future of Work examines how technological disruption, stagnant wages, debt and structural weaknesses in education and employment are reshaping Indian society and work.
The IT sector has long been the engine of India’s middle-class aspiration and white-collar employment. As AI eats into jobs in the sector, India faces a massive socio-economic challenge
BY Nabodita Ganguly 4 June 2026
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