Journalist and filmmaker Rory O'Connor, producer of the FRONTLINE/World segment "The Hole in the Wall," went to New Delhi to report on an experiment that turned into a project that sends slum kids into cyberspace. Read his notes, exclusive to FRONTLINE/World's Web site.

I arrive in New Delhi just a few days ahead of the annual monsoon. A thick, dark, gray mass of humidity and toxic pollutants masks not only the sun, but the entire sky. The heat practically singes my eyebrows whenever I go outside -- it's 48 degrees Celsius to be precise, which translates to a nearly unbelievable 118 degrees Fahrenheit.

I've just spent several sweltering weeks shooting a film on poverty in the northeastern state of Bihar. A third of India's population -- 350 million people -- exist on an income of one dollar per day per family, and tens of millions of them reside in Bihar, the poorest of all India's states.

But here in the capital, India's economic contradictions loom even larger. Unlike in Bihar, the abject poverty here exists amidst the most modern plenitude -- gleaming office towers, five-star hotels, a sizable middle class and some of the world's most advanced high-tech firms.