Computers may be everywhere today, but typewriters stay alive in India.
The factories that make the machines may be going silent, but India’s typewriter culture remains defiantly alive, fighting on bravely against that omnipresent upstart, the computer. (In fact, if India had its own version of “Mad Men,” with its perfumed typing pools and swaggering execs, it might not be set in the 1960s but the early 1990s, India’s peak typewriter years, when 150,000 machines were sold annually.)Credit for its lingering presence goes to India’s infamous bureaucracy, as enamored as ever of outdated forms (often in triplicate) and useless procedures, documents piled 3 feet high and binders secured by pink string.
Also, since many homes don’t have electricity, typewriters function well to keep India’s ever-growing workforce, productive all hours.
via latimes.com