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Internet - The Realm Of Free Boundaries
Smita Chowdhury, Instructional Designer, The Business Workshop

Where the mind is without fear...
Where the head is held high...
Where Knowledge is free...

...Little could Rabindranath Tagore have guessed that these very words would one day be so apt to describe the phenomena called the Internet. Lets face it...the world today belongs to that very Internet which has converted yesterday's 'rat-race' to today's 'mouse-race' and opened up seemingly limitless vistas of information. Thus, now, it is that much more accurate, in-depth, and of course, immediate. With almost every aspect of our life becoming a website, it would be a myopic (if not blind...) move to choose to remain ignorant about this exciting medium of communication.

'Communication', as described by the dictionary calls it 'the process of imparting information' or 'to make known'. The Internet takes it a step further, by not only providing us with the information on the 'what' we request it for, but even the 'hows' and the 'whys', etc. Most importantly, it has allowed us access to the very latest information that happens in any which part of the world.

Also, the replacing of 'snail-mail' with the more dynamic and fast-paced 'E-mail' has brought people from various parts of the world closer too. It is that much easier to keep in touch with loved ones all across. With facilities like Chat rooms and Instant messaging coming up, even e-mails have taken a sort of a backseat in the process of Communication.

From Hieroglyphics in the Stone Age to Emoticons in the Net Age...man's penchant for illustrative representation just doesn't seem to cease! Communicating via pictoral representation can be used to depict feelings, lines, tones, expressions...in other words, all that mere words in lines may not be able to elocute as lucidly.

Coming back to the Internet, it has allowed for innumerable ideas to turn into viable entrepreneurial ventures...purely on its own strength and merit. The advent of these enterprises seem to have all but erased the words 'impossible' and 'improbable' from dictionaries. The empowerment of 'imagination' is another way to describe it. Imagination to create, to innovate, and to set free from conventional 'modes of operandi'...

Despite the wondrous nature of the medium, one has to admit that it is still at a relatively nascent stage in India. There still are many more miles left for this to take us even further as a means of communication...and....

where the world has not been broken into fragments
by narrow domestic walls of reason....

Graphic done by Sophiya