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The most important invention in your lifetime is…

When I was a little girl, we went to our grandparents house in Kerala for our summer vacation. An overnight journey on a train from Chennai and two trains later we would be with our maternal grandparents. I do not know about now but then Indian railways used to give lot of student concessions and we used to get our forms certified from our school office for the trip. The excitement began the day we used to take the forms to the school.

I still remember the excitement on my mom’s face when we used to be there. A large family with cousins and amazing nature of God’s own country, Kerala was something a regular in my childhood. But deep in me would miss my dad and my paternal grandparents with whom I was attached. The only mode of communication was through letters which my paternal grandmother would do informing about what was going on there. It would just be a letter or two and then my dad would join us and we would come back home with him.

We didn’t have any television in my mom’s place then since my grandparents lived in their farmhouse which didn’t get much signal. By the time I came back I used to crave for the Sunday evening movies and of course Ramayana and Mahabharatha serials happening every Sunday morning.

Fast forward today, I just talked to my mom over the phone. Not a video call. But I can do it for free. In fact I can now connect with anyone alive on this planet earth 🌍!

The world has shrunk with internet. Travel has become easy. Booking a ticket is not something to be planned well in advance. I think it is cheap too.

Ha, the streaming videos, Youtube and the many resources you do not crave for television. Your handheld device provides it all for you.

Did the world change quick after the invention of smart phones and tablets? Or am I getting old and feel the change to be quick. My kids got their first IPad 2010 Christmas and I got my first Iphone 2012. My life has definitely changed since then 😀!

Just thinking what would we all cousins would be doing with our own tablets and phones if we had done that time. The bonding over food, the home made vadu mangai (mango) pickle or the chakkai (jackfruit) chips would not have happened.

A prompt that got a flood of memories flowing.

Ha Ha I can’t forget the Atlas and printed directions we used before the era of GPS. Hey we miss directions even with this guy but they are few and far apart!

Have a good day All!