Dual Lives
It gets quite maddening to live dual lives; one inside our small screens and one outside of it. Even while we try to replicate the outside world in the world within the small screens, it is not quite the same. In the world within the small screens, there is hardly any sign of real emotions or vulnerability, barring the personal messages. The world of the small screens invites us to "explore" a world full of happiness, adventure, poems and love. It's all either travel bugs happily showing us greener pastures, literally, or the aesthetic curators showing their perfectly decked homes and kitchens despite a seemingly thriving career. Everyone is happy, lucky or in love. Does the instagram chef have a magical kitchen where the cooking leaves no grease marks? Or does he have a magic spell to make the stains vanish? Why do I see no dishes half filled with water left in the sink from the last meal? Why does the poet on the internet who sits by the verandah of her ancestral hous