Re: [Marxism] cellphone usage in India

[RAJESH ROY <rajeshcherian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is a fact that the cellphone has benefited many people in India in the 
manner that the article has described. In Kerala, where I live, the cellphone 
is used by fish-vendors to find markets which offer best prices. Daily-wage 
labourers like masons and carpenters and workers like coconut-pluckers also are 
helped by the mobility the cellphone provides. The cellphone has become a 
common-man's device here in Kerala, cutting across class-barriers. But I am 
sceptical about it acting as a tool for empowerment in the broad sense, 
granting it has given ordinary people more mobility along with the resulting 
benefits.

Greetings,

Rajesh

----- Original Message ----
From: Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Marxmail <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 14 October, 2006 6:33:04 PM
Subject: [Marxism] cellphone usage in India


can any comrades from India comment on this article?

Les

Dialing Up a Sea Change
India's Explosive Cellphone Use Empowers Millions of Laborers.
Fishing-Boat Skippers, Who Once Had Little Sway Over Prices, Are Now

By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 15, 2006; A01

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