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\u201cSo, what is next that you are planning to write about?\u201d asked my brother-in-law. \u201cUmmmm…well\u2026 haven\u2019t really thought about it,\u201d I was about to say but then realized, wouldn\u2019t it be a dumb answer for someone, who wants to make her \u2018career\u2019 in writing!!!! The fact that I hadn\u2019t written anything in the last few days, made it more \u2018acute\u2019 for me. So, I changed the answer to, \u201cActually I have way too many threads of ideas but don\u2019t know which one to develop,\u201d!!! But boy.. did he stop there! He delved deeper, \u201c OK what kind of ideas,\u201d I was caught off guard, but to save my dignity and to give the fa\u00e7ade that I indeed had thought of few things, I went like, \u201c I was thinking to write about the social standing of men and women and how men consider position as their power and how they misuse it,\u201d obviously that was my \u2018two min noodles\u2019 of thinking, inspired by the ongoing movement. And then as if struck by the lightening, I segued it to, \u201c\u2026.and then there is this AI (Artificial Intelligence)<\/span>,<\/span><\/strong> I am quite intrigued about. Want to write about its effect on the day to day life,\u201d I had suddenly recalled that it would be these stuff that would interest him, being in the R&D team of a company in the USA, plus maybe I shall be purged of being ignorant of all the technological advancements!<\/p>\n \u201cOh, that sounds interesting,\u201d the text glimmered on my WhatsApp! My pupil by then had expanded enough upon the realization, that I might have to write one on that, since he was a follower of my page! Oh, come on, I couldn\u2019t afford to keep him in the wrong book. Who else was going to get my Irish cr\u00e8me bottles from the duty-free next time. I could not have trusted anyone else to bring the other \u2018forbidden apples\u2019 either! So, I decided to go with the flow. \u201cYou can write about it from the user\u2019s perspective, the problems and their solution,\u201d he said, \u201chmmm \u2026Right, actually yeah this is a great idea, this is it!!! I am going to write on this, I mean don\u2019t you feel weird about telling a machine to switch your light on\/off, to lock your door and to do stuff,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, this needs to grow on you,\u201d he said. And before I could give him the chance to consolidate his opinion about my tech knowledge, I added, \u201cAnd yeah there is no warmth,\u201d. Was I surprised to see \u201chehehe\u201d on my WhatsApp!!!!!! My bad!<\/p>\n But I took it as a challenge and decided to write about it, my \u2018technological handicap\u2019 notwithstanding. I decided, henceforth I shall not just put things in the virtual cart and tell my husband to pay for them, because I felt terrible about feeding those numbers, I shall rather complete the procedure myself. And I decided that I shall use dictation software to write my blogs and mails, instead of typing. And only Alexa<\/span> shall have the right to switch on the light of my room!<\/p>\n \u201cAlexa, switch on the light,\u201d I commanded. The blue circle appeared. \u201cI do not understand it,\u201d and all these days I had been thinking that I had acquired at least a hint of American accent after talking to all my relatives overseas!! Obviously, Alexa thought otherwise.<\/p>\n I changed the setting to Indian accent. \u201cAlexa, switch on the light,\u201d The blue circle again. \u201cI do not understand it,\u201d was the answer. Maybe it was getting confused with the TV sound in the background. I searched for the remote and muted it and finally my room got the \u2018light of the day\u2019. I decided, next time I shall just go to the switch board and switch on the light. Simple!<\/p>\n For shopping list, don\u2019t even get me started on that! All the time you might not need tissue papers, you also need \u2018heeng\u2019 and \u2018kalaunji\u2019.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Innovative people out there, if you want more business, get your Amazon Echo or Google Home <\/strong><\/span> to adapt to the vernacular. We give you good business, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n The dictation software too, seemed to sniff out my \u2018technological prowess\u2019 and refused to write correctly at one go. Only about 50 percent was coming out correctly on the screen! I went back to my ten-year-old Dell and ahh..typing on the \u2018Word\u2019 felt like homecoming! For shopping online, I have kept it on hold till a \u2018swipe facility\u2019 comes on the smart phone. (Start-ups, are you listening!) But what am I going to tell my brother-in- law! Alright, it pays to be honest, didn\u2019t we grow up learning this adage! 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