even the government making the mandatory
The world is not only within our reach but it has come to stay in our palm. Improvements in technology saw the transition of pagers to mobiles and graduation of ordinary mobiles to smartphones was yet again a mile stone. In India, 'Doordarshan' and metro channels paved way to their modern cousins - the satellite channels. All these ensured instant news, cutting across geographical barriers with high quality audio and videos to stream in realtime to the users. All these developments came with a complicated guest in disguise, of course. And this was the 'information overload'. The news which was once available in papers, which were assimilated normally, became an excitement with multiple channels repeating the same news - sometime with distorted versions. The excitement in no time turned euphoria; and euphoria turned into chaos in microseconds. The phenomenon is not restricted only to politics, which is the standard feed for a common man - it also broke into education, ...