Into The Light Of Things :From My Notebook
From my note book “Into the light of things” Bhaskar J nath when we were studying in university internet was not accessible barring a few cities in Assam. Launched in the late 90’s by Videsh Sanchar Nigam it was yet to penetrate into the muffassils and semi urban areas . I remember the huge umbrella shaped dishes installed on the roof top of the big varsity library and bee lines of enthusiastic internet savvy students at the computer centre waiting for his turn to surf internet for stipulated one hour . Orkut was the popular social media among the youths . Even today I feel it was way better than present day Facebook where ruling regimes, corporates can use to its advantage . Facebook with its numerous commercial adverts, covert support to state apparatus has become a dangerous capitalistic weapon . Internet has made things easy . Now a days serious readers can easily get full access to the top literary journals through subscription which was almost imposs...