G. P. Sawant, 61, estimates that he has written more than 10,000 letters for people who were unable to do so.
The frenetic pace of change in India has been captured and replayed to us to death by planner power-points:-) and research dockets.
But Change I feel is best captured in stories...
So here's a nice story of a man who made a living by writing letters(what are they??:-) for the unlettered before the communication/mobile revolution took India by storm.
The story was forwarded by Meraj. It appeared in NYT.
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