When something is free. Then you have to understand that you have to pay a heavy price for it.
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu once said, “When missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said, ‘We came to pray to God for your happiness.’ We closed our eyes to pray….and when we opened our eyes, we had the Bible in our hands, and they had our land.
Similarly, when social networking sites came to India, they had Facebook and WhatsApp. And we had freedom of speech, writing, and expression.
They said it was free. We closed our eyes And when we opened our eyes, we had Facebook and WhatsApp and they had our free and complete personal information.
When we accept something that is free, we have to pay for it by giving our free will.
Words are understood only through knowledge, and meaning through experience…
Milind Wankhade
(Rita, Shipping Corporation of India, Mumbai)
25/10/2024
