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When Loneliness Comes A-Calling

17 December, 2007 by Amit Varma

Headline of the day:

Lonely guy shocked to get $83,000 phone bill

And if you think that’s odd, check out what happened to Chris Anderson of Wired. (Via Tim Harford.)

I’m telling you, a much deeper mystery than the human condition is the cellphone condition. Who can fathom what’s there?

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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