The Republic of Right Now

Forget the infamous Indian Standard Time.

- Debashis Chatterjee

India is a nation that now dislikes delay. It has sent missions to the moon and built a digital payments empire; now it demands coriander in 10 minutes and summons toothpaste as if it were a medical emergency. We are becoming a scroll-and-click nation. We scroll for meaning. We click for comfort.

We expect both before the kettle finishes boiling. In our bustling cities speed is no longer an achievement. It is an expectation. If groceries do not arrive at once, something feels wrong with our civilisation.

The 10-minute delivery culture tells us less about technology and far more about ourselves. At a primal level, human beings have always liked convenience. What is new is our intolerance for even microscopic inconvenience. Waiting, once a normal part of life, is now viewed as a design flaw.