All we imagine as @highlight

Hashtag-ism has a trending tag. It's got nothing to do with Arnab & Co's barked breaking news highlights.

- Chetna Keer

It's got nothing to do either with the coloured highlight, heralding the wrath of our editors that used to cause much fright.

It's got to do with hashtag-ism's trending Facebook feature -- @highlight.

The trend of highlighting has caught up so much that before you can scan the newspaper highlights, sip by sip with your morning cuppa, there is a much longer list of @highlight notifications waiting to wean away your attention.

There was a time when one woke up to or was fed on another type of highlights. Markings as red as the rage of an editor-in-chief on spotting howlers.

Highlights and howlers hand in hand, leading to much heated howling down the high table.

Those were memorable red-letter days of highlights. The highlights of digital age have to do more with red alerts or red carpets.