{"id":208,"date":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/07\/2000-11-07-information-revolution-reaches-into-india-s-villages\/"},"modified":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-11-07T12:00:00","slug":"2000-11-07-information-revolution-reaches-into-india-s-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2000\/11\/07\/2000-11-07-information-revolution-reaches-into-india-s-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Revolution Reaches into India&#8217;s Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-India-Information-Technology.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>BANGALORE, INDIA (AP): On remote heights of the Himalayas, awe-struck women from yak-herding tribes sit in front of computers for the very first time. In a farming region, poor village women step into video e-mail booths to send messages to their husbands working in faraway cities. State officials have set up 40 such information centers in remote areas, each with six computers and a direct satellite link. Villagers in some areas can access crop prices, land and health registers, complain to the government and even check horoscopes of prospective brides and grooms.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE BANGALORE, INDIA (AP): On remote heights of the Himalayas, awe-struck women from yak-herding tribes sit in front,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}