RKN,
With due respect to your work as a journalist, I find it funny that u never qualify your posts with any reasons whatsoever. In this instance u say: I am wrong. U have not given any explanation as to why or how, I am wrong. No statistics or anything of the type to reinforce your statement. I said that even those who have e-mails, do not access the same at home. they go to cybercafes where the speed is awfully slow, and this again is an encumbrance and a major impendiment, in cyber dialogue and dissemination of news etc.
Then there are people who had PCs at home and they go bad every now and then, primarily because of continual power failures and voltage non stability; and the impossibility of shutting down a PC the proper way. The result: loss of info and damage to operating system, etc. And then non technical persons have to spend more and then be at the mercy of unscrupulous repairers who themselves may not be up to the real thing, at all.
Then I have seen that PC's are kept covered up in plastic, like some toy that has to be kept waterproofed!! Shows that they are hardly ever used. Like showpieces!! Also the old stock and models of Pcs are sold at higher prices then in neighbouring countries and even higher then in advanced countries. Who is profiteering excessively? Have u done anything in your capacity as a journo to investigate and bring about reform; or for that matter any good at all, for anybody?
All the above is what I experienced, and observed on my recent visit to Goa. Before that I used to think: oh! how so nice! almost all working people must be having PCs in Goa. When in fact the actual situ in Goa is outrageous. U see, no reliable infrastructure to support the 'cyberage dawn' and the 'good life' that should emanate from it.
I challenge u to come up with some comprehensive piece of writing to say that I am wrong on this. It has to be backed by statistics or plain simple reasoning. Remember, everything is 'comparative' in reasoning; and also do not compare with other countries or states etc. talk only of Goa. OK?? Come on Mr Nair. I wish to see u prove u r a capable journalist. If u r really interested in dialogue then give us your views on topics with reason and explanation.
Nasci Caldeira
Melbourne.
From: "Radhakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:51:41 +0530
(Nasci Caldeira: After all, in India the e-mail system and cyber space availability is still only available
with a few rich)
You're wrong as usual, Mr Caldeira!
-- RKN
