What are you - Privately Public or Publicly Private?
Supreme Court’s verdict is out and we, the common people, breathe a sigh of relief that our privacy is restored. The newspapers devoted many columns on this subject, welcoming the move. The analyses clogged the pages and we were assured of the cover, the privacy, which we always wind around in the name of saving humanity, inner space, liberty and anything that being lost makes you feel humiliated, strips you off the basic right. Privacy is our fundamental right. Of course it is. How much I let you know and what I don’t is solely within my discretion – PLAIN and SIMPLE. Privacy is the word we encounter so often, and now it’s being reinstated gives us immense comfort. Well, there’s another instinct too that dominates many of us. To tantalise….to permit to intrude and then bang the door on the face. This tells the story of success by social sites. We are so visible, audible, we open our heart, we flirt, we strike a friendship, we fight and abuse all on these platforms that ...