The Art of the Selfie

I am still learning, thanks to teachers who are much younger- because the selfie is an art that has developed during the generation who are Digital Natives, and not Converted Analogs like me. Here is a collection, mine and those of others-

Milind, a cousin, with my Mom and others.

Anushka Mishra tries one on the 13th Floor- it was not unlucky at all.

A friend in New Zealand with family.

Below, a random walk resulted in meeting Nagendra Shenoy, a former student.

 

Analog Versus Digital Life

My life was analog at the beginning. For one, I studied electrical engineering, not electronics engineering. I used dial-tuned radio/transistors which contained vacuum tube technology inside. I learnt how to take photographs on a regular camera, black and white at first.

I don't remember when I first used a computer seriously, but may have been around 1986 while in the U.S. I also remember seeing the first Apple computer in a friend's lab there in another department (we used IBM PCs and floppy discs in management-no mouse).

Slowly, the world changed. I turned digital like everyone else. So what's the big change? I think the greys gave way to ones and twos- that's the biggest change. Except my hair colour, that is. They are still grey, and will be, unless L'Oreal gives me a gift pack. But then, in my profession, the hair colour I have counts for something.