Why don't you move abroad?

well, below points are not matching somehow :

-------------------------------------- Just like many Indians of my generation, I spent my childhood in a single bedroom rented house. Every evening, my brother and I would sit in front of an oil lamp and study, mostly maths and science. -----------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------ My father has been a software engineer since the 90s and my brother is an absolute rockstar with computers. We didn’t have cartoons in TV back in our childhood but had our hands on keyboard ever since I could possibly remember. ---------------------------------------------

So you operated the computer / keyboard using oil lamp ?

Yes, "generational poverty" seems like a very strong term for something like this and is definitely incorrect contextually. The family background seems squarely middle class to me, nowhere near poverty.

My understanding is that Internet cafes are/were more common in India.

Like this HN breakdown on inconsistencies :)

Poverty has many meanings. The State of Uttar Pradesh in India where I am from used to provide less than 8 hours of electricity per day when I was a child. Oil Lamp is for the times when lights were out. Inverters and battery lamps came very soon. The whole story is spread across my teenage years and of different times.

Thanks Sherlock.