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Xerox Machines and Democracy?

30 December, 2007 by Amit Varma

The WTF lines of the day come from Shashi Tharoor:

[T]he existence of so many roadside sheds with Xerox machines in them is, like our STD booths, a contribution of Indian democracy to the popularisation of technology.

Sigh.

Earlier:: Shashi Tharoor: The Conviction of Banality.

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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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