Thursday, 14 June 2007

Concept of Pre Nursery catching on India

For all the money you make in India, you can really spend it all. ALL in ALL the pursuits you want to ape from the West World. The cost to glamour and lifestyle is very high. A cook, a driver, a full time maid, a convertible, a club membership, a condominium overlooking the city heights.... India has it all. And I have experienced this first hand. Yet I have paid for it with both my hands.
It is no doubt fun. Enjoying luxury and pampering in India is a class apart. The Best of lifestyles, eat outs, spas, clubs, cars, job, maids and all but at a very dear price.A simple example that made me start to vent this out is the pre-kindergarten concept. A concept where u enroll a toddler in a 10 student group with an educational bent of mind, the kid goes to school with his maid, is dropped and picked up by the driver, learns his shapes, colours and learns to call a black horse - a stallion. Big words like the cow's udder can be heard from a kid at 2 years. But then you think about the expense and money and shosha involved to achieve that. You need a batallion of servants and tonns of cash.
It's a struggle and a lifestyle battle to win this rat race. Yet it's got its own thrills. It was fun when i could do it, be a part of it. But i was scared of adapting to it. I sure wanted it, i could struggle and want more each time, with one thing leading to the other and cost of maintaining it, is not even affordable for the upper middle class.
Well probablly the upper middle class is the one caught up in the real rut of liberalisation. They are tutored or exposed to the best and they can see the options available and they are in the chase to get it all, so they work, yet all is never enough and so the chase is on and the struggles and the fun with it. Liberalisation feeds on the teaming millions that form this upper middle class. That is a market share by iteself to support a battalion of foreign investments.
Alternatively, it comes easy in the US. I dont have the luxury to flaunt it in my relatives, yet i can afford most with minimum struggle. Assume this is basic living standard. Pro: There is no rat race just to flaunt more and more. Con: Yet it is boring without the audience and the company of friends and family.

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