PRISONERS OF OUR OWN DEVICE

I hadn’t paid attention to the curious title when I started reading this book. So when I came across bitfulness a few pages down, I asked, what the heck is this? It sounded silly. Did such a word even exist?

- Prasanto K. Roy

THE ART OF BITFULNESS

Keeping Calm in the Digital World

by Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA

₹799, 236 pages

The trouble with reading on a phone app is that you can touch any word for a web search. I was instantly taken to author interviews on YouTube, where I also saw and clicked on an air-crash investigation, then returned and touched a link to the book on the Amazon app. There, I found an alert for some coffee beans I had been looking for, bought those…and soon I’d forgotten about the book and the review I’d promised.