There is no need to be out of touch with the rest of the world while you're in India. International phone calls are surprisingly easy, the mail service is pretty reliable, if a little slow, and cybercafés are common in the major cities and in many tourist centres
Telephones
Privately run
phone services
with international
direct dialling
facilities are very widespread. Advertising themselves with the acronyms
STD/ISD
(standard trunk dialling/international subscriber dialling), they are...
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Mail services
Mail
can take anything from three days to four weeks to get to or from India, depending largely on where you are; ten days is about the norm. Stamps are not expensive, and aerogrammes and postcards cost the same to anywhere in the world. Ideally,...
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Internet and email
In all the large cities and in many tourist towns there are
internet
and
email
facilities accessible to the general public, usually at
cybercafés
, though many hotels and STD booths offer this service as well. Charges...
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