Seems Like We have Lived For Generations

Thinking that it may be better to make certain calls from a phone booth, Sameer and Ajay head out of Sameer's house to do so. The scene was in July 2008.

To his absolute astonishment, all the phone booths he knew existed around his house before he had moved to the hostel in 2003 no longer existed. He remembered the location of at least six of them around his house; none existed now. 

The nearest phone was found four kilometers away, and the phone booth owner was absolutely happy to see customers after ages!

The Novel Fifth Dimension Lives through a variety of changes in telecommunication within the lifetime of a person born in the seventies and early eighties

The life of a lower middle class person saw the following changes

1. No communication. Vacation meant no contact with your hometown for days together.

2. Letters: postcards, inlands and foreign land letters. Used to take days often a week to go across

3. Telephone where our mom and dad used to make us note every number we called in a book to check the bill later.

4. Trunk calls.

5. STD (oh boy, too much!)

6. ISD and phone booths to be in touch with near and dear ones

7. Email

8. Mobile chargeable outgoing and incoming.

9. Mobile phones with made to order plans.

10. Chat Messengers.

11. Orkut: sensationalized communication

12. Facebook

13. Whatsapp...

14. Internet based video calling.

Once I rummaged and found a letter written by my uncle in 1985 from Doha to Pune. It had taken seven days for the letter to have reached. My reply to him would have reached seven days later. Shit do I myself belong to some old old generation or what?