Letter from New Delhi

Today's Washington Post features a "letter from New Delhi", the headline of which is "India's Indulgence Of Its Wealthy Shows Signs of Waning". At the top of my browser it reads "Letter from New Delhi: India Loses Patience With the Super-Rich".

If you read the article, however, it isn't about Indian anger with the rich, it's about anger with the government:

In this developing nation, government officials have long enjoyed first-class air tickets, overnight stays at five-star hotels, and vast entourages of servants and security, in what is known here as "V-VIPism."

But with the global economy in peril and India in the middle of its worst drought in years, such displays of wealth have begun to anger the public, especially after the Indian media reported that Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna and his deputy, Shashi Tharoor, had been holed up for more than three months in two of the capital's most opulent five-star hotels while their pricey bungalows were being built.

The men said they were paying for the hotel stays out of their own pockets. But television pundits wondered how public servants could afford suites that can cost anywhere from $250 to more than $2,000 a night.

...Amit Gupta, 34, a manager of a food company, said it is up to elected officials to lead the change. Only if they do, he said, will modern Indians truly be able to move up the economic ladder.

"It's become our national reality show. But if our politicians go on TV and eat street food, we all know that they'll never be seen there again once this attention is over," Gupta said. "It makes good television, though."

The article doesn't mention a single wealthy person connected with the private sector. This isn't anger about wealth, it's anger about government abuse.