By Sidharth Mishra
So the lockdown, for all practical purposes, is here again; lockdown for the office-going, law-abiding and such other people. The protocols issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has put the shackles and one is back to doing what one does best in such situation – scroll up and down on the screen of the phone.
This being the festive season of polls, the pop-ups on the screen is full of political messages. And it would not be out of place to say that technology–enabled history rewriting is playing the biggest villain of Indian society, including politics.
Howsoever you may not want it, one ends up being members of WhatsApp groups which have the roots in the caste, region and language. And there starts the lessons in Indian history from ancient, to medieval and modern. Given the reporter’s itch, the writer habitually ends up reading these discourses and if nothing else pull own hair with dismay and disgust.
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