NEW DELHI, INDIA, November 10, 2002: A human rights group has launched a campaign here against Short Message Services, arguing SMS has become the root of divorces in India where mobile telephones are the latest craze. Activists with the National Human Rights Council staged a demonstration and burned a cellular telephone in a protest against the succinct messages which are now crowding the Indian ether. “SMS is against Indian etiquette and culture and is the cause of numerous divorces in the recent past,” council President Subhash Gupta said after the protest in the Indian capital. This article does not explain why SMS is causing a problem, except to state that even innocent text messages like “U4ME” were known to have sparked marital discord ending in divorce. “SMS has diverted the youth of the country from Indian culture and they are now following the Western trend of dating,” added council General Secretary Ramesh Sabbarwal.
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