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E-Mail Columns - Come Again! What’s the connection? 
About ten years ago, I’d get calls from friends, colleagues in other cities and well-wishers if I hadn’t sent them an email, service message or letters in a week or two. You know, the usual I-was-wondering-what-happened-to-you email. These days, people take it amiss if you don’t keep sending them emails about once in two days (even if it is only some vapid and mindless forwarded joke) and, even worse, expect a reply to an email within the business day, even if it’s some non-work, non-urgent message. My mobile phone failed the other day. It was old, tired and had lived a happy and fulfilling life; and I wasn’t sorry to see it go. This meant that I was incommunicado for about a day. As I check and respond to emails on the phone, more than the normal quota of people got all bothered about my health and safety. By the next day, I realised how bad the whole thing was: lots of emails and calls about where I was and what I was doing; all that happened was I was not reachable by phone over a weekend. I wonder if we are becoming victims of the technology we have: how did earlier generations manage to tour India, and sometimes around the world, for their work when one had to wait for an hour or more to put through a long distance call, and it was incredibly expensive? How did their families manage their anxieties about all that travel? Finally, how do we ever get things done when we seem to only be taking phone calls and responding to emails and twittering, or blogging and getting socially networked? Are we really too connected? N. Nagaraj More Stories on : E-Mail | Come Again!
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