The Ink Fades on a Profession as India Modernizes – New York Times
the professional letter writer is confronting the fate of middlemen everywhere: to be cut out. In India, the world’s fastest-growing market for cellphones, calling the village or sending a text message has all but supplanted the practice of dictating intimacies to someone else.And so Mr. Sawant, 61, and by his own guess the author of more than 10,000 letters of others, was sitting idly at his stall on a recent Monday, having earned just 12 cents from an afternoon spent filling out forms, submitting money orders, wrapping parcels — the postal trivialities that have survived the evaporation of his letter-writing trade.
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Pooja
That’s really true, in India now even a common man can become a writer, the value of professionals writers have become less. As I am a frequent visitor of SiliconIndia, I would like you to contribute your articles in its publishing section as all the members will definitely like to read your articles. http://www.siliconindia.com/register.php?id=T49I1Fh5