Amid poll battle, it is new media versus old

The number of people in India with access to the Internet, particularly with the popularisation of ‘smart’ phones, has been growing exponentially. It will continue doing so, via the millions, high and humble, who are already connected by mobile telephony, even as the cost of smart phones keeps coming down. Add in the spread of fibre-optics, broadband, the use of computers, tablets and so forth throughout. The jungle drums will have grown wings, the grapevine new sinews.

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