Anant Ambani’s glitzy wedding highlights India’s ‘missing middle class’
Al Jazeera
India’s middle class is much poorer than China’s after decades of strong growth despite starting at a similar base.
Ten million dollars to fly Justin Bieber to India’s financial capital Mumbai for an evening’s performance.
An 800-guest cruise around the Mediterranean costing $150m.
A wedding ceremony featuring hundreds of guests and a price tag upwards of $600m.
These are just some of the numbers that have been bandied about in thinly sourced, speculative reports about how much India’s richest man may have splashed on the wedding celebrations of his youngest child.
Anant Ambani, the son of tycoon Mukesh Ambani, married his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant in a lavish ceremony held from July 12 to 14 that set tongues wagging in India and further afield.