While I start to
recall my early days of childhood, one thing that comes to my mind is that
feast/festival of Indra gatra[1].
While I was a kid, I used to go to my mother’s house situated around basantapur
area, I always wanted to see that chariot of Kumari and rich tradition carried
and showed in the names of either chariot, or that white elephant of other god
dances/ devil dances. The decade early the social networking where people find
their friends, their loved ones in one of those feast but the days now have
changed. The whole social dimensions of the networking has been replaced by the
single word naming “E”. Everything has started to be replaced by this nasty
brutish but not short “E”. I still wonder why this “E” is Internet.
No one would
have thought in the early 19th century with the invention of
computer that there could be networks built with this invention. That people
will be such dependent to it. While the
social networking as defined by scholars and renowned sociologist has been a “thin
line” in the societies not necessarily is seen with the naked eyes. This
invisible line and the network of the internet could make such an impact on the
society, in commerce, in the field health, in politics and just another few
names. Every aspect of human lives now has been controlled by this nasty
brutish but not short “E”. Everything that you need is just a “clink” away from
you, of course if you have a computer and an internet connection to it. While
societies poor or rich, a family that has a strong or weak social status, a
country that is listed “a First World” of “Third world” one thing they all have
in common is that they all have computers, they have the network and that
effects of E-networking where people meet people for various reasons. Where
people become even closer in the internet than in the crowd of Indrajatra, with
out even being physically close. While the Audience all-round the New road
Kathmandu are busy felling that vibrant colorful crowd the same feeling of liveliness,
rejoice and charisma is transferred through clicking the net in New York in
America. The social networking of the internet has created SMART niche, whether
to find a job, find a life partner, find suitable education, find medication,
find meditation, finding business, recreation or may be more that one mind or
body can desire. The world has become a small place where the desires of people
now no longer need to wait; they spend thousands of years to divide themselves
in different lines of caste, creed, race, religion, ethnicity, gender and so
on. With the options produced by the E-networking and E-marketing now these
diverging dimensions have started unite together and the people are becoming a
subject governed by this power called “E”. The government that is more powerful
than popularly elected government of a strong county, of a consortium of
nations of continents, or that world organization that recently had their 64th
general assembly. The power generated here is by an individual person like you,
like me, or any other person seeing their horizon in the internet, hoping to
click the right click in the right time.
[1] A famous
festival of King of Loads of Hinduism, celebrated in Kathmandu
in the Month of September when the chariot of only living godess kumari is
shown across the cities in and around Basantapur area.
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