Published by Bloomsbury Genres: Nonfiction, Business
Pages: 184
Published: 2017 by Bloomsbury
Cover Rating: 5/5
Gayatri Jayaraman’s article The Urban Poor You Haven’t Noticed: Millennials Who’re Broke, Hungry, But On Trend on BuzzFeed last year was realistic and fascinating. It what tempted me more to give this book a read. The main theme it covers is what can be label as Urban Poverty that can be seen as an after effect in corporate offices after Friday nights and weekends spend in bars and lounges.
The book starts by stating facts such as how India is gradually becoming a cashless economy. In an intra-world, where “cash is the king” due to support of merchants and businessmen, residents of India, especially the younger generation have started carrying out more applications like PayTM and other cashless services. The book is divided into four sections with each chapter clearly entitled to what comes ahead for the reader. Each chapter contains anecdotes or real life stories mostly of younger earning generation about how they are unable to save money, gambling away their savings and having no regret afterwords, or girls taking advantage of an ongoing evil in our society called escorting and prostitution just so they can afford an iPhone.
On reading further I came to realise that there is this egoistic mindset in-rule which is often misinterpreted for workaholic’s aggressiveness. Believe it or not, if you are like me, it might take a second thought to realise just that. Even though the main point of the book is to make its audience self-aware, I think this book can be thought of as similar to Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad since both of these share that one asset they tend to provide.
The book does not specify a target audience but from the outlook of the book and the stories inside one can tell it has its own target audience. Young people residing in the country of India. Starting from the age of 16 which I think is suitable.
4 out of 5!
Note: I received this book from the publisher but that doesn’t mean my review is breaking any reviewing rules and I thank them for their effort with all my heart.
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Egads. Prostituting for an Iphone?
Yep.
Fascinating! Thank you for talking about this book. I love books like this that dig deep into a subject critically.
I am glad you like the concept!