Mohan Kothekar
Writer and Blogger
The
mother earth is too munificent to have the mobile phone as god gift of the twenty
first century. Beyond one’s imagination,
new innovative technology in the phone industry revolutionized the whole social,
economic and political fabric; gaze anywhere, you will notice individuals are
chatting, gibbering, yelping, scolding, wriggling, waging, blubbering and playing
on mobile. Phone was once a status
symbol; now-a-days persons having below poverty line credential also posses the
mobile phone. In the sixties and seventies
the telephones were the exiguous commodity, and once in a blue moon the
opulence of the society reluctantly couch obituary message. Now, top up the mobile phone with pre-paid or
post-paid card and chitchat, play game, do WhatsApp or see the movie, send the
messages etc till balance become zero.
Statistics of 2016 says the approximate number of mobiles throughout the
globe is 700 crores of which 115 crores are in India, while, smart phones are
210 crores globally and 30 crores in India.
The mobile phone is a common entity in the country and 27% has a smart
phone – a junk of Indian have more than mono mobile/smartphone/iPhone/cellphone. As per citi/imperial College Digital Money
Index, India ranks 63 out of 90 nations and 57th for facilitating
digital transaction – thickly 4% of total money transactions of the country. In the next decade five billion worldwide
populations will have their own smart phone and will constantly in touch with
it.
Encouraging
cashless transaction - as a symbol of patriotism - could be one of the smart
phone purchasing reasons of the teenagers and youths; probable intent to
beguile the parents to spend their hard earned hefty amount. Central Government projects such as Make in
India, Digital India, StartUp are obliging needy to purchase a cell phone. Twenty mobile phone brands are assembled in
India; Samsung Company retained the top position. One survey reported that a total of 50% cell
phone is agglomerated in India; the country is possible to surpass US in a
short period. During the excursion most
of the itinerant is engulfed in mobiles as if there is no world outside their
realm, it is the proof of production and accessibility of the latest version.
Household
maid, road cleaner, labor, vender, mason, farmer, petty contractor and umpteen numbers
from so called destitute categories are the conceited owner of the latest brand
and are so inuremented to it that they cannot survive without the device. Subscribers are glued to the phone, one ear perpetually
preoccupied with modern extension – Bluetooth device - or their eyes fastened
to their iPhone. The device bolsters
them in search of livelihood and business on a daily basis. The cost of device ranges from Rs one thousand
to almost a lakh. The ear phone reminds whether
the individual is deaf and dumb, how one can listen music for hours together, with
whom conversing or trolling - the passerby or person from the other end
difficult to judge, why glared at smartphone, why the person is laughing at
sundry jokes or witty poems or the latest uploaded humorous or jocular videos;
a series of queer query knock the mind of the onlooker. Perspicuous advertisement accelerates the sale
and expediency of the mobile phone; varied e-market amenity transforms fostered
a dream into reality.
Innumerable companies – example Apple,
Nokia, Oppo, Motorola and Samsung - manufacture mobile and smartphone; mobile
phones are almost outdated, each smartphone brand has countless models and
customers are insane for a newfangled model of different size, shape and
utility. Alone, Samsung multinational manufacture
more than 450 different models. The
model behoove absolute and fusty within year – short live span, a new policy
vogue of global manufacturer that has to be rooted out by the populace –
pulsation and legal - and coerce them to support after sales services for a
decade or two. Manufacturing blemish
seldom ensued in physical injuries during conversation due to unforeseen explosion;
not a single businessman till date has been prosecuted and sends behind the bar
with heavy financial penalty – the question of industrial abrogation doesn’t
arise. South Korea conglomerate
‘Samsung’ Note 7 smartphone was a defective one due to design flaws and notice a
series of fires and explosions, recalled 2 million devices during September 16
costing $6.2 billion.
Initially, the mobile phones were
meant for communication mode, at present one can survive devoid of food and
water but not without a cellphone.
Umpteen numbers of adolescents have an infatuation for smart phones;
that has shattered the basic fabric of the society. The children feel crummy if preclude from
mobile phone and become fanatical to contact near and dear innumerable times a
day; the anomaly has converged at sociologist and often clinical, constantly departed
from sports and studies – parents are helpless.
Timid lads all the time plays like a toy with the parent’s smartphone
and sends drossy messages to their pal. Globally,
the infants are the copycat of elders, smart phones has made them crazy for
video games, music and animated films and stayed aloof from the play group -
physical and mental and recreational exercises - is the biggest concern of the
psychologist and psychiatrist; problem persists at a higher rate in single or
two child policy houses. At random read
any e-message or email or listen any conversation or gossip, astonished to
experience neither US nor Queens English, but altogether new phonetics and
short cut writing that has yonder the imagination of the gentleman’s brain. Famed schools have forbidden the smart phone;
the neo-breed of journalist has contravened it tooth and nail under the perspicuous
name of freedom of expression.
Minimal
phone conversation stretched for half an hour - unless disrupted - between any two
gentle ladies; veracious that bill payment is the ardent obligation of a spouse,
the content ranges from trifle unsavory recipe to frothy worthless useless and
lengthy chat with lambent or opprobrium or derision. If she is blessed with married daughter, then
everything centered on poking her nose in daily rituals after every hour or two
that is uninvited and tedious for groom family; if lassie gets peeved may
culminate into conflict, brawl and separation.
And, if the daughter resides overseas, then video conference with the
girl and the infant, rare with the son-in-law, at a fixed time for minimal of
an hour in a day is a must for nonsensical baby talk, uncalled advice, useless murmur
and grouse; just reverse, lengthy discussion with the lad and the infant and reprehend
and berate to daughter-in-law. On an
average the banal lady speaks 10,000 words a day and if the wife is extra
talkative then the husband has to shell out additional bucks barely for her
gossiping. Some Muslim ladies are not
fortunate as fatwa’s of religious head don’t allow them to use phones publicly
that they are retorting publicly; they quench their thirst privately at
secluded space is the different story.
It
is inessential to ventilate about expediency of mobile and cellphone if young couples
are in elephantine love; the virile financial acumen of different brands
influenced by these tribes. Assuredly
the magnificent enhancement in love marriages in traditional belt, the entire
credit goes to delicate electronic gadget.
They whisper hours together without anybodies knowledge, expressly
parents and so called closest enemies.
Secrete nuptial knot aka small marriage ceremony or eloped plans are
discussed in detail and faultlessly and exquisitely executed using electronic
device; also secrete whisper during her solitary confinement. The graph of inter-caste, inter-religion,
inter-region, international marriages is positioned towards skyscraper due to
extensive use of cellphone in a day to day life of marriageable youth –
mediators support the couple by hook or crook method.
Young
ones are emboldened bashful adults to get them acquainted with smartphone so as
to frame them self-reliant in cashless transaction and also other routine
activities related to phones - cyber crimes and e-theft of their hard earned
money make them reluctant to cooperate. TV
news regarding comprehend of scoundrels in crimes such as theft, rape and robbery,
murder awake senior citizen, the smartphone act as a tracking and surveillance
device for cops and a quick communicator of the senile group with near and dear.
Persistent
accompaniment of cell phone and its active use has a negative impact on the health
of a person. Electro-pollution and radiation
risk leads to cancer, especially brain tumor and breast cancer, electromagnetic
field accelerate mercury release from a tooth, chances of higher bacterial
load, neurological problems in baby and pregnant lady, disruption of sleep,
headache, confusion, decline in sperm count and erectile dysfunction, addiction
to mobile, depression, suicidal temptation, affect glucose metabolism of the
brain are some of the health hazards due to mobile phone. Whether selfie is a neurological condition or
ardent habit, in depth research is required to decide the future course of
action. So mobile is a friend as well as
foe, it is purchaser to decide and act accordingly.
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