I ran out of song titles to use as Blog titles

Day 11: September 16 2020: One step Closer

Did you notice that last few blogs were titled with a song name and ended with a pretty GIF of the song?

Perhaps, what you all just noticed is how I wrote about the struggles of my life and all that negativity around it. Not your fault, it’s how we react on social media.

I had been trying to inspire people, write positive notes, poems, design some cool stuff and all goes unnoticed. As soon as I post something outrageous, something negative, or something worrisome, it draws a lot of attention.

We are being served video clips without context to fuel anger and rage. But why would someone do that? It’s very simple. Anger, disappointment, and your urge to dish out your opinion on everything generates views, clicks, and draws more eyeballs. On social media, your anger means that our guy Mark & Co are making their pockets heavier.

Well, can I change human behaviour, maybe or maybe not. But I can ask the person who is reading the post to make a habit to spread positive vibes through their social interactions on the internet too. Share your friend’s work. Voice your opinion but at the same time know to respect and take conversation to private chat or stop it entirely as it get ugly.

Internet is filled with trolls. I feared putting out a tweet because of the trolling. It can get really bad. But also I realised that I could make small difference by sharing my friends’ works on the same platform and appreciate them. Take that one step closer toward the digital hygiene.

Well I don’t know if you noticed but the song title is in the date block today.

The Dance of Knights

Day 4: September 9, 2020 : The face off

The Knight is an interesting piece on the Chess board. The only piece that moves in a weird yet cunning “L” shape. As it jumps around the board, the squares it covers, change their color. At one point it attacks the black squares around and on another move it may be attacking the white squares.

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There is a stand off at the Line of Actual Control between the People’s Liberation Army of China and the Indian Armed Forces. COVID 19 cases are on a rise and the number of deaths per day is rising while the recovery rate still remains low. Economy is in a pretty bad shape, worsened by the added pressure of the lockdown.

But here we are, the knights. Switching from the bollywood controversy of drugs, murder, abetment of suicide, the media circus to the Queen’s bastion being demolished signalling a cruel political vendetta. The level of journalism, reporting, and public discourse has stooped to a new low. No one wants to talk about the real issues and how the government is addressing them or plans to address them. The Knights are just defending their respective Queens. Holding fort to the ideological debauchery leading them to the reservoirs of sycophancy.

The 24 hour television news is minting money, the PR agencies are minting money, the political bosses on either side are controlling the narrative with the bollywood actors working like pawns. The weirdest Dance of Knights on display.

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Why am I so triggered?

The rising ‘interference’ of the Digital World

Hello readers,

Yes, I am finally back on this website, writing enthralling stuff for your brains.

While thinking of new ideas for the post, I came across a news article that stated ‘ Facebook will affect 160 constituencies in 2014 polls’. and realized how our digital copies on the internet can really alter the scenarios in the physical ( real in true sense) world??

Since the advent of internet, more precisely ‘the social media’, our lives have been cut into two halves. We all have our digital ‘clones’ on different websites which nowadays call themselves ‘Media‘.

The real meaning of the term media is ‘ the bridge between the people and the government’ . But for the past decade the interference of digital world has grown exponentially into the field of what we know as Mass Communication. Within seconds a news can be spread ( and so can be rumours) across all the people around the globe.

We all are readily accepting the increasing popularity of social networking and the physical world ceased to exist any more. The right wingers had been dominant ( in India especially) on these networks trying to ‘influence’ the youth. Now what we see is the acceptance of this technology by the Government as well. Every Speech of the President of India, prime Minister of India is uploaded on Facebook pages. The social network has entered governance too.

To conclude this post, I would like to remind you that this platform for communication is relatively new and is ever evolving into a stronger shape. So whatever the study says about the influence of social media on votes looks little exaggerated ( same as the Rs. 26 figure). Meanwhile keep posting your ideas and opinions but do remember there are friends ( and followers) in real life too.

Hope you enjoyed the read.

Till we meet in the next post. Jai Hind.