Facebook, Google and the race to sign up India

With a tentative wobble, a young woman in a sari is trying out her new bicycle for the first time, cycling around a sandy courtyard in Ambaji, a small town in Gujarat, north-west India. The bicycle is blue and sturdy, with wide tyres to help it withstand bumpy terrain. On the back is a box that holds precious cargo: not pizza, or post, but the internet.

Read the rest of my FT Magazine story on the quest to win over a billion users amid accusations of digital colonialism on FT.com.