"Smart Phones, Dumb People?"
A few weeks back, I had written a brief post on my cousin Paul Da (Parthajeet Sarma) after reading about a short story competition for a book on Indian entrepreneurs. On a whim, I had written the post during office lunch break, without pausing for a second. I did not know then that I would be writing about him again! Or rather, about his book ‘Smart Phones, Dumb People?’ Paul Da had kept his book under wraps and it’s only recently that I came to know about it. I wondered how he managed to find time to write the book considering his hectic professional schedule and the presence of two kids (the younger one just 18 months) at home. The book’s prologue answered my query – he wrote during the early morning hours. So, that’s what had been going on in his mind all those years when we were in Mumbai and found him awake at 5.00 am every day. Now that his book is out and I read it, I don’t know if I should call this post a review. Principally because this is my first non-fiction book (...