Dayatva

  8:30 pm “No, we don’t talk anymore!” The girl next door told me that she told her that it was me but it wasn’t me. It was her, the one in the black dress. Everyone goes around, looking at me with those green eyes. 3:00 am Oh! Wait. She wasn’t even there. She left soon after dark. What spreads faster than wild fires capable of setting our minds ablaze and without a discernible origin? If you ask me, I’d say fake news. Fake news and social media Being responsible netizens, it is our duty to distinguish fake news.   Fake news, in layman language, is just another type of hoax. It is treacherous information presented as news for personal or professional gains. A few forms of fake news are – clickbait, propaganda, satire, sloppy journalism, misleading headings, biased news and manipulation.   The most common misconception regarding fake news is that it is recent. Even though it may seem new, fake news has existed since communication began. The firs...

Navaratri is about to come, but my Gujarati friends are extremely sad and disappointed as this year they won’t be able to play Garba and Dandiya, the celebration won’t be the same, the enthusiasm won’t be the same, the fun won’t be the same (or may even not exist), and the most important thing is we won’t be with our friends. People say the millennials are forgetting the essence of festivals, but the situation has increased the relevance three-folds. The time has changed so much that we want to talk, we want to have fun, we want to get-together, but everything is just prohibited.   “न   हर   साल   की   तरह   नान - नानी ,  दादा - दादी   के   यहाँ   जाना   होगा ,  न   पड़ोसियों   के   यहाँ   मिठाई   बाँटना   होगा।   न   ही   घर   पर   कोई   मेहमान   आएंगे ,  न   ही   हम   किसी   के   यहाँ   पटाखे   फोड़ने   जा   पा...