Professional letter writers have long provided a way for illiterate people who have moved from villages in rural India to the country’s big cities to keep in touch with their families. But technological advances have meant less and less work for the letter writers. India is the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market. And with rates as low as one cent a minute, most people now simply call the folks back home.

(Source: International Herald Tribune)

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