Were the women in Gujarat feeling hopeful of securing money for buying a mobile of their choice in the mid of the ongoing year? If not they are now supposedly feeling good about themselves. It could begin amazingly. This is clear after Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in a viral video talked of handing over women a free mobile set realising its urgent need in the present time.
Though his scheme of providing money to the women of the state for buying mobile comes from the video, he was overheard clearing that we are trying to plan to give a fixed amount to the women of the state to buy mobile phones of their choice. Giving them internet-navigated modern-day devices under the special scheme would be a welcome move.
Raising a pertinent query, one might ask: Would the scheme come into his political mind behind the state assembly polls? He schemed what other politicians failed to speculate. Providing the money for buying a mobile of their liking for women remains always an adored ambition altogether. This alluring scheme can gain women’s support on political grounds, some believe.
Being a skilled and experienced political leader Ashok Gehlot knows how to capably move in the political realm. He relates that providing smartphones is a way of empowering women. Is it, not a tool comforting their daily tedious lives?
He has thought of women’s empowerment through the mobile. This could be a political idea. In her book “Dopamine Nation” written in the year 2021, Dr Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Stanford University, California, writes:“The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation,”
Though she used the very term wired generation—-a phrase coined by the music channel MTV, it describes how the current 16-to-24-year-old “MTV generation” is permanently plugged into a network of digital devices, thereby fetching the wider world to their fingertips in an extraordinary way no previous generation has ever experienced.
We know amply well that responding to the push notification rewards us with dopamine, the brain chemical that makes us pleased. Mobile has, as many consider, become a bane in our lives more or less. For all those politicians whose every plan is pored over fully by diverse methods.
All the politicians at election time convey a good impression, some among them even offer a bad impression. In such a peculiar situation the common man begins to believe they are good if there comes up freebies on their part reassuringly. Our politicians’ conduct can not always satisfy people’s anticipations.