Wiring India

Photographic Exhibition of How Low-Tech Workers are Building a High-Tech India

First Online: June 10, 2001
Page Last Updated: January 03, 2012

"But Who'll Build India's Bridges?" -- the leading technology magazine Wired asked recently (Mar. 2001), pondering over the disproportionate development the nation is experiencing. In this picture series where illiterate, unskilled, homeless laborers are laying optical fiber cables, we bring you the answer.

List of Pictures

• Bare Footed Laborers Rolling Fiber Optic Cable
• The Cable Woman
• The Homeless Cable Guy After a Hard Day's Work
• The Internet Burden
• Man Uses Hammer to Dig a Street
• The Man Who Dug Up the Garden City
• Men Who Will Wire India

• An interesting story behind obtaining these pictures

See Also:

• Kannada Captions and Exhibition of these pictures at That'sKannada.com

• Dot-in, Dot-out -- a guide to Internet in India