The urban poor have always lived on the edge, but now even the lower middle class and middle class are feeling the squeeze. Rent, groceries, school fees, transport and healthcare consume such a large share of household income that salaried professionals are borrowing just to stay afloat. The crisis is no longer looming -- it has arrived

xDelhi is grieving. A horrific blast near the historic Red Fort has so far claimed 13 lives, injured many more, and shattered the city’s sense of safety once again. Investigations are on. In moments like these, everything else can feel secondary -- and rightly so. But even as we mourn, we must also reckon with another kind of violence: the slow, invisible kind that unfolds in homes across urban India every day -- a cost-of-living crisis that is tightening

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