Sitting in our drawing rooms, one can view what is happening across the world even in the farthest of the countries. Be it the Prince Williams' wedding in 2011 or ball by ball updates of cricket match happening anywhere on the globe-today one carries the world with him/her. A few years back, one needed to be glued to the TV to get the latest updates, as TV was the prime source of information. Today the entire world is at our fingertips. Web cam, 3-G internet at unbelievably high speed, video calling, photographs, videos, recordings, music, and payment of bills—everything is assimilated in a small gadget called mobile. Moreover, with telecom companies slashing their rates every other day, access to technology is no more the domain of a few elites.
Gone are the days when even a STD call to Ludhiana would cost around $50 a minute. Now video calls even
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