Originally posted by: hotchoco
I don't want to give away too much info so I'm going to keep this as generic as possible. My paternal grandpa was a magistrate in a very big city and was childhood friends and neighbor and later worked with a man who went on to become the Prime Minister of India.
My grandpa was very respected and looked powerful since he always moved with police escorts and stuff like that. But my dad did not grow up in any luxury at all. They lived in a rented house in a joint family with a lot of people. They couldn't even afford to buy a home. Not even things like movie tickets were easy to come by. They could only watch once or twice a year and that too only the tax-free movies. 😆He and his siblings went to local schools and got into average middle-class professions like dentistry and microbiology.
You can get rich from these types of public service professions if you're corrupt and take big bribes, not if you're a decent person.
In fact, my dad thought life in India sucked and as soon as he got married, he moved to the US with my mom. And that too, not because of any connections from his side. It was because my mom's parents and siblings already lived in the US and sponsored them.
People have some bizarre ideas about connections and luxury. 99% of connections are complete shit. Nobody does anything for you other than your close family and maybe best friends. Either people here are like 14 and know nothing about the world or are deliberately talking crap because they want to spread hate.
I agree with you, infact it’s only now that people have started making a lot of money out of private jobs and such. My father is a graduate from IIT Delhi and he started with a govt job, which did not pay well at all.
My grandfather too was an honest one, very powerful senior IAS officer but it ends when one retires. He just had enough to make a house for himself which was never completed once he passed away.
Unless you have a huge inheritance which a lot of people lost after partition or you have a flourishing business, you aren’t rich during those times. When India got its independence.. what was the statistics of people above the poverty line?
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