Magic box
The box has both merits and demerits. It depends on the needs of the users. Actual users get maximum benefit out of it, but those who do not have utility and money should be treated as "nonsensical".
The ratio between the actual user of the box and the nonsensical is very big in our country. It might stand like 1:50 and this uneven ratio results in very bad impact both on society and economy as well.
Ours is a poor country with no other option to spend money on unproductive purposes.
I am not pleading for stopping the use of the box but feel obligated to tell the authorities concerned to ponder on following points before the box goes to the users:
1) There should be a criterion for eligibility to get the box.
2) Free-hand use should be stopped.
3) Young generation who are under 18/20 years (both male and female) should not be allowed to use the box (because they have no earning).
4) Working classes like labourers, rickshaw-pullers, days labourers, farmers
(who can not afford to maintain the box) should be
barred from using it.
With the advent of the box, society is being benefited but that benefit must not be at the cost of insurmountable negative influence of the box on society.
My six years old son asked me to give him a box.
I said, “What is it?”
He replied passionately-- "mobile phone".
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