Several fishermen in the villages around Pondicherry use wireless and solar power-driven Internet for information on fisheries, weather, agriculture and healthcare thanks to the pioneering work of Prof M.S. Swaminathan. No fisherman has been lost to the sea in a fishing village in Pondicherry ever since it started obtaining village-specific weather reports over the Net and broadcasting it over the village loudspeaker. In Tamil Nadu’s Nellikuppam district, sugarcane farmers use a Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) system to check their accounts with a local sugar mill and market prices of fertilisers and pesticides. In Rajasthan, women have converted their chaklas into mousepads for learning the use of computers. In Punjab, the Jats receive dollars online from their nri sons and chat freely through cyber-cafes next to their farms. Women artisans and farmers from Patan and Sabarkantha in Gujarat have invested all their savings to buy a telephone connection.