Spoilt by technology

Every day I watch my grandson make a big racket as he leaves for his school. He looks more like a paratrooper than a schoolboy with a big satchel on his back and his packets full of assorted items ranging from a mobile to an electronic calculator. What he does with them I do not know but he is unable to answer a single question correctly, from India's GDP to Sachin Tendulkar's latest score, though he has them all on his laptop. We had no satchels and of course, no laptops when we went to our first school which was not much of a school as schools go. I was four or five years old at the time, we lived in a small village and our teacher was also the priest in the temple. Actually, the temple served as a school, there was only one teacher for the entire

This article was originally published on November 13, 2021.