India, Feb. 9 -- Saroja Gautam likes calling herself "middle class", or someone who aspires to be a part of it, since the relationship between that moniker and her current economic condition is tenuous. Living in a clump of low-income households at the edge of Jangpura in southeast Delhi, Gautam is a domestic worker and her husband Satyavan is a bus driver. The couple have a son and a daughter who they hope will become white-collar workers - "office wale babu" - one day. The children are not old enough to go to school, but the parents have already started squirreling money away to send them to an English-medium school, the first gateway in India to a better life. She regularly swats away her husband's desire to move out of their two-room ...