| In an interview to media, Shekhar Kapoor, a film producer, made a general comment about the distance caused by technology between your work and you. He said, 'the more I use computer, the more I realize, I'm not writing poetry any more. There was something more emotional about using a pen and paper'. Certain emotional insipidity and dryness about the use of technology, turns writing 'cut and paste' phenomenon. The second half of the quotation brings in the foreground the experience of writing and the pleasure associated with it as displaced from each other. Recently, people have stopped enjoy the activity of writing as computer has replaced pen and cut writing experience from pleasure it had. The present article considers the writing activity in the context of academic circles and intends to dispel fear. |