Connecting to the Future
India has now overtaken the US as the world’s second-largest telephone market, and is projected to overtake China before the end of 2012. Indeed, the cellphone has empowered the Indian underclass in ways that 45 years of talk about socialism singularly failed to do.
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NEW DELHI – One of my favorite photographs shows a Hindu sadhu right out of central casting – naked body, long matted hair and beard, ash-smeared forehead, rudraksha-mala around his neck, the works – chatting away on a mobile phone. The contrast says so much about the land of paradoxes that is today’s India – a country that, as I wrote years ago, manages to live in several centuries at the same time.