Indian newspapers are one of a kind; in the sense that it's quite different from a Swedish newspaper. I have a subscription of two news paper which are delivered to the door each morning around 6:50 AM to 7:10 AM. I would say I'm extremely surprised that the newspapers are showing up in time when so much else is late, late and late in this country. Anyway, most of the articles are related to the following subjects:
- Infrastructure (why it's delayed, who delayed, etc etc)
- Death. How many died in traffic, how got robbed and stabbed to death, a 23 year old woman falls down in a hole in the bus and gets under the bus and dies!
- Politicians shaking hand, telling what great job they actually could have done if the opposite party wouldn't interfere in their job.
- Collywood movie stars partying in their 80's outfits at some new trendy expensive pub
But what did I find in yesterdays paper; an article about the third gender, the transvestits in Chennai. What is quite unknown to people outside India is that India has a lot of transgender people; which basically is men in saris. Anyway, they are mostly begging and selling sex to earn money but some smart corporation people has now found out that they CAN actually work! The world welcomes India to 2009, daaahhh!
One of the jobs they will do in future is to assemble spare parts for companies like Nokia, Motorola and Foxconn; the mobile phone industry. My first thought was; why aren't my dear friends at Sony Ericsson offering their help to the transgender people?
Tom, Daniel, Per, Peter, Mats, Fredrik. Maria! I have some people who wants internship at your office, when can they come?
Over and out.
I read the article this morning and was as amazed as you.
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