What is the cheapest commodity in the world right now? I think it is Information. In fact, it is free. Information is now accessible to all. It is so easy to be enlightened now. All you need to do is to login to YouTube, learn from WhatsApp, join Facebook, Telegram groups and you get more information than what was contained in the library of Alexandria, when the Roman forces, “accidentally” put it on fire. To add on to your knowledge you have the digital avatars of traditional media, the digital newspapers, and newsfeeds. In this world of ours, it is impossible not to know an event that has happened 5 minutes back. The great flood is not a myth, believe me, we are living in it. The great flood of information. This great flood of information has drowned us already and we seem not at all aware of it. We believe we are breathing in the fresh air when we have ceased to become humans. We are in an interim state between humans and robots, having neither the human capacity of inte...

The Generation Gap I will start by saying something very personal. When I was a child, barely 3 or 4, I used to see my grandfather wearing the same clothes to his chamber. He used to be a doctor in a rural part of Bengal and far away from the urban showoffs. When he returned from his chamber, he used to wash his clothes with his own hands and ironed them carefully so that it becomes fit to wear the next day. On the contrary, my dad had some 250 Shirts and T Shirts and many of those were typically high collared, as if coming straight out of Elvis Presley's wardrobe. After my father died, we found it hard to find people who would take those clothes as those were highly out of fashion by then. If I start speaking for myself, then I have at least a thousand shirts and T shirts cluttering all over my place. I can easily part with those but when the moment of throwing them away arrives , it happens that I suddenly and certainly realize that the color of the to be thrown away piece is r...