You may think they are cash machines, but they're not - they're fully operating computers, built in holes in walls of India's rural villages or slum areas. They are aimed at young children whose parents cannot afford a computer at home. On this week's South Asia Wired, you can hear how the system works.

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A hole in the wall
In the late 1990s, an Indian computer scientist placed a computer in a small room in a New Delhi slum, which literally could only be accessed through a hole in the wall. Everyone in the neighbourhood was free to use the computer whenever he or she wanted, whether they had any computer experience or not. It turned out to be a successful programme, as many children used the machine to learn basic computer skills.

Today, hundreds of public computers are available to underprivileged children across India, giving them a headstart when it comes to computer aided learning and teaching in schools.

On this week's South Asia Wired, we hear from Delhi how the system works.

The UN after the Tamil war
Two and a half years after the end of the war between Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government forces, there is still no sign of an officiual UN investigation into what really happened during the final stages of the war.

Gordon Weiss, who at the time was the UN's official spokesman in Colombo, has written a book, "The Cage", about his time in Sri Lanka and what went wrong. Mistakes were made by the government, the Tamils and the UN, he says in an exclusive interview with Radio Netherlands Worldwide's International Justice Desk.

On South Asia Wired, you can hear a few highlights from that interview.