Lifestyles: 1900 — 2000
Austerity to extravagance

Lifestyles have changed dramatically over the last 100 years. From an impoverished existence at the beginning of the century, followed by Gandhian austerity of the decades between the 40s and 70s to excess and indulgence of the 80s and 90s, life has moved on surely and steadily. The 21st century will see India move on to the fast track as the Internet revolution takes a firm grip on our lives and makes it market and not ideal-driven. Deepanjali Diwedi reports.

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  says Mukesh Khosla
  
  
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• Hawthorne: The Indian connection,
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• The secrets of sleep,
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