Our Digital Selves

A Gurgaon-based student uses YouTube to get investing lessons. A home maker from Kolkata can digitally pay for her groceries and get them delivered at her doorstep. A medicine shop owner in New Delhi is happy that even customers who may have forgotten their wallets at home or run out of cash can buy from his shop using their phones. A corporate couple based out of Noida only ever withdraw cash when they need to pay their house help or the local vendor. A senior citizen couple in Kolkata love to remain connected with their children and grandchildren through WhatsApp and other social media platforms. Digitalisation is a refrain that we have all been hearing for the past few years, but it is only after Covid forced common Indians indoors that it really played out and touched our lives in numerous ways. From ordering in groceries to a fancy vase or dress, from paying property tax to...