6 Further Reading

Links and references for people interested in reading further on the topics touched by this article.

Power

• The Electric Power India web page reports that villages are provided electricity only sporadically and that villagers feel that they cannot rely on electricity to operate their equipment.

• The southern Indian state of Karnataka and home of Bangalore, India's IT hub, suffered a shortfall of 3,200 MW of power, according to a May 2002 article in India Today. PCWorld columnist Niyam Bhushan raises similar concerns in his ``Give us Bijlee, not Bandwidth'' article.

• A report titled The Future of Electric Power in China, Korea and India edited by William Chandler of the Battelle Memorial Institute, reports a 12 percent electricity deficit and 20 percent peak power shortage in India.

The Indian Caste System

• The National Geographic summed up the caste system succinctly in its June 2003 issue on Untouchables, when it said that ``Embedded in Indian culture for the past 1,500 years, the caste system follows a basic precept: All men are created unequal.''.

• Aharon Daniel's summary of the Indian caste system and The Caste System and the Stages of Life in Hinduism offer brief introductions to the caste system.

• The Yahoo directory contains further references on the Indian caste system.

Low power computing

• The Handhelds.Org site is an excellent repository of information on low power, small footprint computing devices.

• Handwriting recognition is the subject of ongoing research; the Yahoo Directory page on Handwriting Recognition is a good starting place for further reading.

• The LART project home page describes the LART design and its applications.