Austerity in this class is an unconscious trick. For many wealthy business families and politicians and activists, austerity has been a more conscious trick, a strategy. Why are the austere austere? One of the important reasons why India’s old money has adopted overt austerity is to avoid provoking the poor. When we see it as a habit and not tradition, austerity is not so abstract.

Source: Mint November 15, 2020 14:48 UTC