When a society changes in any important respect, dislocation of character takes place, said psychologist Eric Fromm. For example, when the feudalist system was replaced with the capitalist system many people found themselves like fish out of water until they adapted themselves to the new system. We live in a time of rapid changes. Each day comes with a new technology, a new software for the laptop, or a new app to be added to the smart phone. Our world is not what it was twenty years ago. Post offices have become redundant. The video player metamorphosed into CD player which soon became defunct. The CD/DVD drive replaced the floppy drive, only to be overtaken by the pen drive even before we could absorb all these changes. Door Darshan became a romantic nostalgia struggling to breathe amid a plethora of channels of all types. Banks went to ATMs before coming home on our laptop screens. Queues for paying all kinds of b...
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