# Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers

India has the second largest population of any country in the world — yet it has only 50 decent bookstores, says publisher Chiki Sarkar. So she asked herself: How do we get more people reading books? Find out how Sarkar is tapping into India's smartphone revolution to create a new generation of readers and writers in this fun talk about a fresh kind of storytelling.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ChikiSarkar_2018S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/ChikiSarkar_2018S?play=1)