Ker lo duniya mutthi mein...

As I am writing with stylus on my mobile's notepad, I am truly feeling that the world is in my hands. Just the other day I was reading in one of the biographies of Agatha Christie how she would spend days writing pages of her genius creation manually; times have changed so drastically that we could have more of her masterpieces had she been equipped with these devices then. What would be considered an out-of-the-world gizmo in earlier Bond movies are reality now. I remember when 10 years back in college days, we, a bunch of friends visited the swankiest first of the real malls -- Shoppers' Stop in Ansal Plaza, it did not have a mobile counter, simply put mobiles were still not a big that time. Even, afternoon transmission started during my childhood days and metro channel, which would literally be telecast in 4 metros of the country, also started when I was in class IX (and gave us of one of the first VJs – Baba Sehgal, Kritika comparing Superhit Muqabala, the only show featuring the latest bollywood hits (in fact bollywood was not a bollywood that time. It’s a relatively recently coined term by Page 3 journos). I used and learned computer hands on when I joined Press Institute of India's PII''s crash course for journalists; there I got to know what email is and I remember I taught to send/recv mails through msn, yahoo accounts to others too. When I got my salary for the first time in Hindustan Times, it was transferred in the HDFC account and we all in the same route cab got down at one of the ATM machines in C-Scheme, Jaipur while on our way back from a night edition shift and we all explored and experimented how to use cards in ATM. Funnily enough, we were given pagers to stay in touch when the world was on the verge of seeing mobile revolution (Does anyone even remember pagers??? I can say proudly or rather embarrasingly? "I did"). And then, when did mobiles, ACs , mails, internet became as necessary as oxygen difficult to recall. Just a year or two back or so I read about how microblogging is the next big wave in technology and today we are talking about moving away and beyond from twitter, facebook and the likes. Changes would happen always but the pace at which they are happening is much faster and will be more so with time. But with this arises many questions in my mind that why cancer, flu, and other many more such basic things are still unanswerable...and I have yet to fathom such unanswered questions. May be when I write a blog or any such thing in vogue that time some years down the line (or may be writing becomes a thing of past and it’s something else), I would have many more such interesting memoirs to share with my grandchildren...