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  To begin with, gratitude for you if you take the arduous task of rolling your eyes from left to right and going through the posts, every time they land up in our chats. Not everyone pays heed. It is 90% probable that you’re not a ‘reader’. So, in that way you’re compelled to let my words gobble up your patience. The tale of our debasing patience. Leme take you back to the times when there was no cinema, but books. Reading a book generally took a few days. That’s real endurance . It was 1895 when the big screen was born. Lights! Camera! Action! And see, we now live in the OTT age, which bypasses cable, broadcast and satellite television platforms. Why will I wait for Dil Bechara to come up on Star Gold instead watch it right away on hotstar? Right? In 2005 came the YouTube , through which pouring information over our brains takes an average of 10 minutes. 2004 ‘Mark’ed the creation of FB . 2010 saw the launch of your favourite IG . Did you notice how the ‘instantness’ ...

From the 'virtual' desk of a well-wisher. This coronage, our corneas  have tasted all sorts of screens, small or big (or bigger), binging over web series and movies and social media. Even our two lugholes (I just mean human ears, but somehow need to stretch, you see) couldn’t keep themselves away from earphones. Over the past few months, we have spent little time outdoors and too much indoors on screens. The lockdown has led to the ‘embrace’ of technology like never before. *world turned upside down Let me present to you the indictment of the scenario with help from some reports: * The World Council of Optometry predicted that by 2050 half of the world’s population will be myopic. * The WHO estimates that around a billion young people across the globe could be at the risk of hearing loss because of unsafe listening habits using earphones.   Children who get addicted to the internet and gadgets may not be able to develop interpersonal skills and may not have the in...