Virtual prosperity (The Indian Express)
"ELECTRICITY may still be a distant dream for Dalits in this Uttar Pradesh village where 70 per cent of the families live below the poverty line and many are bonded labourers, but that has not stopped their children from learning to use the internet or handle digital cameras. Indeed, some Dalits from this village of 360 families where half the land is owned by gun-toting Brahmin landlords who still regard banks with unease, have gone on to become teachers, army officers and Railway officials...."
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