If you then wanted to connect to another city, let's say from Calcutta you wanted to call Delhi, you'd have to book something called a trunk call, and then sit by the phone all day, waiting for it to come through.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta insisted on something that always impressed me the most miserable and tragic thing about poverty is not the lack of bread or roof, but the feeling of being no one the feeling of not being anyone, the lack of identification, the lack of public esteem.