The middle class is sleeping! In the last few days, there have been so many issues that the middle class should have participated generously in, but sad to say that it hasn't. The reason our plastic money culture that makes us feels empowered even when we are in a huge debt. We love to swipe our cards, even when we are aware that the recovery calls for the last swipes are still haunting everyday.

Vegetable prices have broken all records; essential commodities come at a price that not many of us can afford. But ministers blame us for the price rise, saying people have started eating more and we, the middle class who should have revolted, take it lying down.

We are aware of the right and wrong but we prefer to keep mum. Gone are the days when even for a slight price rise, women used to come out on the streets holding a big steel thali with a spoon and would go to the office concerned and throw a fit. The sound of the thali and the spoon was so loud that the authorities would take immediate action.