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Over the past decade, a silent crisis has been unfolding in India's middle class. While incomes have stagnated and job opportunities have dwindled, borrowing has surged at an unprecedented rate.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has highlighted that net household savings in India (i.e., household savings less household borrowings) as a percentage of income is at its lowest since 1977. The reason for this figure plunging over the past five years is not so much falling ...