“Why India must read Bangladesh crisis carefully”, First Post, February 21, 2026

“India has grown economically. While reminiscing about my last degree, my coursemates checked whether hostel rooms were equipped with jetsprays and geysers, slightly over a decade ago. Today, students check whether 10-minute delivery apps, working on a complex system of logistics, have their dark warehouses nearby.

There is a level of comfort that was once aspirational that is now taken for granted by a very large population. The possibility of moving from poor to lower-middle and from lower-middle to upper-middle socioeconomic classes, due to increasing urbanisation, private job creation, and even increased governmental land acquisition, has made the common Indian more comfortable than ever before. So comfortable, in fact, that many have little cognition of what war and strife bring.

For many, experiences in a quickly urbanised setting have devolved from exposure to new knowledge, food, literature, language, and hobbies to virtual views of curated collections of some of these. The experiential dimension of life has rapidly shrunk into a handheld kaleidoscope that allows them to see what a large machine wants them to see, distancing them from the true emotion of a situation……”

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