“2025s looks better”: 80 years old, IAS Ex iAS “Nani’s Take on LinkedIn on the middle layer in 1970 against 2025

A contradictory life in LinkedIn in 1970 with 2025 sparked the country’s debate about whether the middle class journey in India is easier or more difficult today. Now, Chayaga Chandra, a former IAS officer who is over 80 years old, has jumped on the pretext that modern amenities and double income make the “twenties … definitely better” than the linear world five decades ago.

In response to the viral LinkedIn function that expressed regret for the pressure in 2025, Chandra presented a direct comparison to life at that time and now. “The seventies were written but very specific,” she wrote. “The middle layer was extended between living as common families or facing pressure on the expenses of meeting. One of them was constantly watching the expenses … Going abroad was on one’s salary (usually one salary) that could not be conceived.”

In contrast, I noticed that modern life provides more freedom and comfort, thanks to digital comfort, high income, and double families. She added: “In 2025, the middle class has either or rents with a good location. Eating, paying the children’s school fees and paying the price of their lessons and activities … within the reach of many.”

By highlighting how daily the technology is reshaped, Chandra wrote, “Online shopping and pure payment for almost everything has changed scrutiny and payment of bills … holidays, living in nice hotels, and flying instead of traveling by Rajdhani, the base has become a large majority.”

She also referred to safer for urban life, CCTV, and fitness options, and freedom to change jobs with promotion skills as signs of a more powerful generation. She wrote: “If the skill and rehabilitation is required, then people do this and increase the market price with every job change and workplace.”

I fell with a nice and strong note of the younger readers: “Please think before you start to argue with me. Nanis Daddi have eyes, ears and mind!”

Chandra’s comments came after businessman Hemancho Calla posted on LinkedIn the opposite of life in 1970 with a more competitive environment and celebration today. “In 1970 … you are ready for life,” he wrote. But in 2025, “it begins with debts, and it is ordered within two years, keeping up with … The two partners only work to raise one child.”

His position struck a tendon across generations, drawing responses ranging from agreement on inflation and mental pressure to more hope and personal growth. But for many, Chandra’s veteran perspective and not my apology was the one who firmly discussed-everyone is unknown that progress was rarely unilateral.