One Woman’S India : From The Gandhian Era To The Cyber Age

hese memoirs of ninety six years of my life include many momentous experiences via my famous journalist father Pothan Joseph and his connections to Gandhiji (Mahatma Gandhi) my life raising a family in the Indian Railway system in post-Independence times beginning a career as a teacher when I was well past youth and finally retiring with full access to the internet email and other benefits of the Cyber Age.About the AuthorMrs. Anna Varki started working as a teacher after being a housewife for 23 years and then in her 70s she started working on the computer. Slowly and steadily she became computer savvy. She was interviewed on a TV show and received many accolades. there was no stopping her. Her takes on amusing and interesting events in daily life form the themes of her articles. Her style is simple direct and charming. It is as if she were writing a journal noting down changes in living styles from the inclusive Indian joint family gradually giving place to the nuclear family the emergence of educated women opting for careers job fulfillment rather than early marriages the fast-paced life of the computer era and the marvels of the cyber age. She records the changing scenarios leaving it to the readers to draw their own conclusions. But there is certain nostalgia when she writes about the decline of books as a storehouse of knowledge and pleasure. Her musings have been published regularly in magazines periodicals and newspapers.