Masudi (left) and Abidi developed the 2G-friendly app. (Express Photo)
At 10.37 one morning last week, as Shakir Rashid went live with his class online, he had already been rung up by several of his students – he was seven minutes late, and they were impatient. Rashid decided to wait a few more minutes to let some more students join in. And at 10.40 am, he began his class – on the theory of demand and supply.
Rashid, who is based in Srinagar, teaches a class in a course of cost management accounting – and this is how most mornings begin. His 76 students come from nearly all districts of Jammu and Kashmir, from Doda to…
