What is atounding about technology in India is not the almost everywhere. It is the almost everyone.
V stands right at the digital divide, one leg on either side. He is from hilly Gharwal in Uttaranchal and arrived in Delhi a year back, with practically no knowledge of computers or modern telecommunications. He now has an Orkut profile and a Gmail account. Monday last, he pointed out to me his house in the village, where his parents live, on Wikimapia. It proudly bears the tag, V's house.
V knows such little English. He is twenty and yet to clear his tenth standard exams. Truly a revolution.
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