The first issue of Spider-Man India has just been released on sale there. This new comic book is a touchstone for the kinds of highly sophisticated globalisation processes that are now becoming much more common-place in the Twenty-First Century.
This month, the comic-book and film hero Spider-Man 'moves' to India. The first issue of Spider-Man India has just been released on sale there. This new comic book is a touchstone for the kinds of highly sophisticated globalisation processes that are now becoming much more common-place in the Twenty-First Century.
India is the fastest-growing mobile communications market in the world. The rural poor are rapidly adopting phones, so the technology could become a platform for providing banking services. Sanjay Swamy, CEO of the mobile-payment platform mChek, talks about the potential.