Editorial

I like to believe my parents are rational, logical beings which they (mostly) are. They haven't tried making us do breathing exercises, or sitting outside in the sun to fight corona, although my mom did try making us drink ginger tea.

No matter how many times I tell her, citing credible news reports, that the virus won't spread from objects brought into the house several days ago, she refuses to agree. This all culminated in me, in a frenzy of washing everything I brought back home from a shopping trip, letting loose my inner Gopi Bahu and furiously washing packs of sticky note pads. That was an intellectual low point.

I have since recovered but sadly the stacks of paper have not.

On a more serious note, while we blame our parents for not having enough digital literacy, it is time schools too teach kids how to process and filter information in the digital age. The kind of information we are presented with in the real world has changed, but somehow education regarding it has not.