Private Selves, Public Feeds: Growing Up Online with Ria Chopra

What does it mean to grow up in a world where you are always watched, always connected, and never quite logged out?In the Season 2 premiere of The Reading List by Bahrisons Booksellers, Aashna Malhotra sits down with Ria Chopra, author of Never Logged Out, to explore the cultural and emotional cost of living in the age of algorithms.From early internet memories to curated feeds and performative identities, they trace how digital life has evolved in India and how it has shaped an entire generation in return. In a time when the internet influences how we think, speak, love, and protest, what does social, political, and cultural expression look like?Part memoir and part cultural analysis, this episode asks a pressing question: are we shaping the internet, or is it shaping us?