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To: John Biddle who wrote (29184)	11/20/2002 5:15:57 PM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 196972

Activists slam extra-marital text By Nick Farrell [13-11-2002] pcw.co.uk Indian human rights group burns mobiles in protest A group of activists in India is calling for an end to text messaging, claiming that it has become the root of divorces. Members of the National Human Rights Council staged a demonstration and burned a mobile telephone in protest. The group told the Asia Times that short message services (SMS) are against Indian culture and have cause a number of marital breakdowns. The protest - the first of its kind in India, where some 2.5 million people are now owners of mobile phones - argued that even innocent text messages, such as the typical "U4ME", were known to have sparked marital discord ending in divorce. "SMS is against Indian etiquettes and culture and is the cause of numerous divorces in the recent past," the group said.