When I was very young, I remember the TV being called the “idiot box”. That was the time in the late nineties when cable television had started making inroads into middle-class homes in India and parents were terrified of the children becoming slaves to the small screen.
The parental concern, however, had been a global phenomenon since as early as the 1960s. Television was widely touted as the nemesis of books and libraries and bibliophiles. So much so, that in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl had a whole song dedicated to the devastating effect of television on young minds.
Little did these unsuspecting parents know what was to arrive in the future to fry the brains of their millennial grandchildren.
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