Comments on: Internet Cafes Around The World http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2008/10/03/internet-cafes-around-the-world/ notes, photos, and other collectible fragments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:11:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dilip Muralidaran http://www.richardsnotes.org/archives/2008/10/03/internet-cafes-around-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-177074 Dilip Muralidaran Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:56:08 +0000 http://www.richardsnotes.org/?p=4446#comment-177074 Looking at the Indian ones, i have a strong feeling that most of this is stereo-typed. Images shot to show something the photographer already feels strongly about, as in how things should be rather than documenting how things really are, probably. No doubt that i can find cyber cafe's in a broken bus on the highway in india but thats more of an exception than the norm. Personally, i know of Cyber cafe joints in Chennai that beat the crap out of the ones in Singapore. In fact the one i'm going to this sunday for a meeting has free unlimited broadband internet. They make their money selling snacks, food, coffee and sheesha. Its more of a hippie concept coffee bar/cyber cafe + teen hangouts kind of a place. I think "Weird Internet Cafe's around the world" would be more of an appropriate title :) Looking at the Indian ones, i have a strong feeling that most of this is stereo-typed. Images shot to show something the photographer already feels strongly about, as in how things should be rather than documenting how things really are, probably.

No doubt that i can find cyber cafe’s in a broken bus on the highway in india but thats more of an exception than the norm.

Personally, i know of Cyber cafe joints in Chennai that beat the crap out of the ones in Singapore. In fact the one i’m going to this sunday for a meeting has free unlimited broadband internet. They make their money selling snacks, food, coffee and sheesha. Its more of a hippie concept coffee bar/cyber cafe + teen hangouts kind of a place.

I think “Weird Internet Cafe’s around the world” would be more of an appropriate title :)

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