{"id":683768,"date":"2026-05-21T08:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683768\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:28:14","slug":"life-saving-medicines-now-have-price-caps-inflation-who-10-things-that-got-cheaper-in-india-over-the-last-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/683768\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-saving medicines now have price caps &#8211; Inflation who? 10 things that got cheaper in India over the last 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, a decent cable TV package plus a DVD player was your only real option. Today, JioCinema offers premium content free of charge, while Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime cost a fraction of what cable used to. India now has some of the lowest streaming subscription prices in the world.<\/p>\n<p>While overall inflation has pushed up prices across most categories, competition, domestic manufacturing, and smart government policy have quietly made these 10 areas more affordable. Your rupee, in these spaces at least, stretches further than it ever has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2016, a decent cable TV package plus a DVD player was your only real option. Today, JioCinema&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[250755,250760,250758,49,48,250759,250756,84,250757,250753,377,250754],"class_list":["post-683768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-affordable-products-in-india-2026","tag-best-affordable-smartphones-india-2026","tag-budget-smartphones-under-rs-10000","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cheap-android-phones-india","tag-cheapest-mobile-data-in-the-world-india","tag-health","tag-india-mobile-data-prices","tag-make-in-india-products","tag-medication","tag-things-cheaper-in-india-than-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}