Twitter & Insecurities: Dilemma of Indian Middle Class

These are harrowing times for Indian Middle Class. Twitter is trying very hard to locate itself in the cross hairs of the Government and get itself banned. Their latest intransigence is showing truncated map of India wherein J&K is shown as a separate nation! It is no wonder that of all the 21st century platforms, Twitter was a proud Indian adoption - after Sonia Gandhi of course. Having been denied any opportunity to read and write for centuries, expressing stereotypes and/or choicest abuses in 280 words was nothing short of Biblical ‘Manna’. Inflicting opinions had never been easier - and cheaper! This, after Indians have comprehensively tweaked the objective of every available social media platform and used them unabashedly for dating, snooping, bitching, communalizing, marketing, motivating, brandishing and scaring (hardly an exhaustive list). Even the creators of these platforms couldn’t have been so ingenious. This episode narrates the likely adverse impact on ruling political class due to current callousness of Twitter India.