{"id":292,"date":"2004-08-27T18:40:51","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=292"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"delhi_wifi_cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/delhi_wifi_cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi WiFi costs more if you&#8217;re white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi airports <a href=\"http:\/\/in.rediff.com\/money\/2004\/aug\/27wifi.htm\">just got wireless Internet access today<\/a> for Rs. 60\/hour at the domestic airport. But if you&#8217;re (wink, wink) at the international airport, you pay the more princely sum of Rs. 100. It&#8217;s a subtle way to soak foreigners, just like the higher <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_988000\/988414.stm\">tourist fee for foreigners<\/a> at the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n\n<p>What constitutes a foreigner, exactly? What about a Canadian desi who&#8217;s an Indian citizen and, just to throw the game off, has an Amrikan accent? Entire <i>genres<\/i> of literature have been written on these shades of sepia.<\/p>\n\n<p>And nothing makes consumers see red like discriminatory pricing. It puts off visitors and marks a country as Third World in mentality. In contrast, it&#8217;s precisely the U.S.&#8217; tolerant atmosphere that siren-songs the global wunderkind. The number of Americans <a href=\"http:\/\/cvillalon.blogspot.com\">happily working in India<\/a> is just starting to increase. For some short-term revenue, you&#8217;d mortgage your country&#8217;s economic future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi airports just got wireless Internet access today for Rs. 60\/hour at the domestic airport. But if you&#8217;re (wink, wink) at the international airport, you pay the more princely sum of Rs. 100. It&#8217;s a subtle way to soak &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/delhi_wifi_cost\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}