India is the world's second-biggest smartphone market after China. — Pixabay
MUMBAI: Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed schools four months ago.
Kumar was already in debt and the cow was his only asset. He sold it last week for 6,000 rupees (RM340.24), almost all of which he spent on the device.
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