Free to get texts from India?

So my friend lives in India and he has an iphone with a free texting app to text me. I just have a regular cell phone and I can't get apps so my question is is it free for him to text my cellphone and for me to text the app back?

No it is free for him but not for you because to send free text you must require that particular app or any other free texting app. If you want to text then you can send him free text through internet sites that provides facility of free sending texts.

Get a smart phone, you can get an iphone 4 free now with a 2 year contract. Then you can text for free using imessage, etc. At this point there's no reason not to get it.