Thursday, June 10, 2004
Comment du jour
Folks, I wont be blogging until this weekend because I have been very very busy wrapping up my survey among the fishermen of Kerala who have adopted mobile phones in large numbers. So, today I heard a pretty amazing comment from a fisherman who uses a phone regularly. In response to a question in my survey that asked whether he would stop using the phone if the price of calls went up, he responded thusly -- "If the price of rice goes up, does it mean I stop eating?"
I was pretty amazed actually to see a poor fisherman draw that comparison. This should serve as a lesson to all the idiots in the Indian govt who pretended for years that mobile phones were a plaything for the rich (and taxed accordingly).
I was pretty amazed actually to see a poor fisherman draw that comparison. This should serve as a lesson to all the idiots in the Indian govt who pretended for years that mobile phones were a plaything for the rich (and taxed accordingly).
