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India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops
Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.
These “Frankenstein” machines — hybrids of salvaged parts from multiple brands — are sold to students, gig workers, and small businesses, offering a lifeline to those priced out of India’s growing digital economy. Many global manufacturers deliberately make repairs difficult by restricting access to spare parts, using proprietary screws, and implementing software locks that force customers to buy new devices instead of fixing old ones. But for now, in dimly lit workshops across the country, men like Prasad and Singh continue their work, reviving the dead, bridging the digital divide, and proving that, in India, the repair ecosystem is set to thrive.
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