There is certainly some irony in having a 200,000 INR per month salary+perks and encouraging others to contribute voluntarily (worse still to call it staggeringly low). More importantly I think, besides mere envy, that this causes a rift between much of the community that was actually happy being (unpaid) volunteers and those that would rather spend their time jostling to be part of the funded system. Overall it seems funds as opposed to shared resources (examples here being libraries, journal access) have a tendency to affect egalitarian aims, and I suspect the effects are worse in the "Global South". Vishnu or anyone else in such enviable positions might feel apologetic about it but the question to ask is whether it is even possible to find the right balance here.