Robin Hood spots new Neighborhood!

It is certainly not an ordinary Sunday (September 27, 2015), the God of Knowledge, Lord Ganesha is on his way back home (Ananth Chaturdashi). Like every year, this year too he showered on us bounty full of knowledge and blessings. Just when we thought that was over, he gave us for the very first time something that we had always seen but never understood in depth. Three new NEIGHBORHOODS!

To make us aware of these new neighborhoods and their importance in the years ahead, he used one of the strongest medium on this planet Earth, none other than, our very own Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

Addressing a gathering of technocrats at Silicon Valley in California during his US visit, Modi stated that he had met many of them in Delhi and New York, and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. These are the new neighborhoods of our new world.

Indeed what a thought. Today we cannot deny that we have made friends quicker in our life than expected through Facebook or Twitter. We keep everyone informed of the minutest happenings in our life through Twitter and in return keenly follow what’s happening on the other side. All this changes have completely given a new dimension to one’s life. It will not be wrong to say that through phone calls we were connected, but through these newly formed neighborhoods we are strongly inter-connected. All this has happened in the shortest possible time.

Prime Minister Modi says that the most fundamental debate for our youth today is the choice between Android, iOS or Windows. It somewhere goes to reflect the progressive mind-set of the country who has embarked upon to be the giants not just in the political sphere but on technological know-how too.  

Days are not far when the school kids will walk into classrooms having no blackboards but 3-D screens and no burden of carrying bag full of notebooks but rather fully charged iPads.

More and more foreign technology giants are now showing keen interest in setting up their offices and production houses in India thus making it easier, for the educational institutions, to seek placements for their wards within India and at the same time working for a major international house. Isn’t it one way a positive solution to long pending issue of ‘Brain Drain’?

Finally, Modi has a point when he says, “the status that now matters is not whether you are awake or asleep, but whether you are online or offline.”

When he says this, he means ‘Online’ for the productivity and growth of the nation, ‘Online’ to help reach the technological know-how to the remotest corner of the globe. It is high time to switch on our brainy Wi-Fi and embark upon the journey towards a contributing citizen of not just India but also of these new Neighborhoods found by our very own Robin Hood.

Ganapati Bappa Morya, Pudhchya Varshi Lawkar Ya!