Really reeling from their suffering?

THE FLYTRAP SHARANYA MANIVANNAN @SHE_OF_THE_SEA The columnist is a writer and illustrator EAL life is offline.

-  SHARANYA MANIVANNAN

So is real work, real activism, and real connection - even if some of these three can happen, in important but inconsistent flashes, through the web alone. Real change is slow and demands endurance (or persistence, often both). The ever-online world had a reminder of these facts this week when leading international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, whose seeming silence on the plight of people in Gaza was often and sanctimoniously noted by many, was found to have been, well, doing her job all this while.