The New Indian Reality: When 40 Becomes the New Layoff Age
India is quietly drifting into a new reality — one that doesn’t make headlines until it hits your own living room. It doesn’t scream crisis. It arrives silently, and when it does, it stings. For a growing number of urban professionals, the most dangerous decade is no longer the 50s. It is the 40s. At 43, Rajeev Dhar didn’t think he was anywhere close to being “disposable.” A mid-level manager in a multinational tech company in Bengaluru, he had led migrations, held teams together during attrition waves, and trained younger hires who were now rising faster than him. He had done everything the corporate world tells you to do if you want to stay relevant. Then one week, he was told he was no longer “core.” He had become “excess cost.” The 15-minute call did not just end his job. It ended the illusion of stability. It hit him quietly and brutally — he had not only lost employment, he had lost the ground under his family. Not too long ago, the 40s were supposed to be the “settled” dec...









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