The Digital Revolution: A new age platform

Oct 19, 2025 - By Ashutosh Roy Society

The Double-Edged Sword: Navigating India’s Digital Revolution

Can a kid of digital India go to sleep without playing a video game in the smart phone? Even mother uses a cartoon in the phone for feeding a 2 year child. The days when mothers sang lullabies or told bedtime tales of ogres are now history. The digital revolution has brought about a phenomenal change in our lives.

Instead, they run digital media, YouTube channels like Jadui Aloo Ki Gadi or Tia & Tofu or Max and Tammy or PunToon Kids. While engaging the kid in this channel; she gets more interests in Facebook or Instagram like social media for worldwide interaction. These instances reveal the digital revolution in India.

Even in a long-distance train, one can find the replica of the same while travelling; may be at the cost of your sleep. Instead of chatting with fellow passengers, travelers now prefer to plug in their earbuds and watch their favorite digital media.

A Nation Plugged In Digital Revolution

While the press media is almost on the verge of extinction along with TV channels, the boom of the digital world in the Web 2.0 has become the bread and butter at this stage.

We have seen only in this September 2025, how ban on social media sparked the Zen Z in Nepal, and finally thwarted the Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.

If we look at the global context, the digital marketing budget jumped up to $1.17 trillion in 2025 in comparison to $772 billion of 2024. Can Digital India remain far behind? The number of social media users is growing by leaps and bounds. There has been sharp jump from 462 million to 692 million in just one year.

Digital Natives and Immigrants

Gen Z is born into the Digital Age and naturally grows up with tech-integrated lifestyles, so we call them Digital Natives.  Comparatively aged people, known as Digital Immigrants, have also made digital media an integral part of their lives.

Whatever the definition might reflect, even the people of urban areas also search Amzon or Flipkart before going out and search it in the local physical shops. Nobody can remain aloof from the blast of digital media.

A lot of professionals earn their livelihood from the freelancer websites, when the unemployment situation has been alarming enough in today’s India.

The Cost of Hyper-Connectivity

Social media has also become the time pass for many house wives and retired persons in today’s competitive world; where the aspirant guys are literally spending 10-12 hours for their career ambitions, the partners of the elderly aged people feel lonely. Even for a working couple, the kids suffer badly from loneliness. Social media has become the angel to them.

While the social media has cast a magical impact to avoid loneliness, it has also made people aloof from the family and social relationships. Today’s kids or adolescents love to remain engaged in social media instead of going to the playground in the afternoon.

Such changes are disastrous and spread its far-reaching tentacles in their life. The people have been suffering from various issues like eyesight, spondylitis, even some psychic disorder. That can not certainly keep us away from the booming digital India.

As its an advertisement driven world, one can encounter some very obscene advertisements in social media. Moreover, the voracious hackers, spammers and illegal rackets become remain highly proactive for cheating, blackmailing and other illegal activities.

Even many adults fall in the trap of Digital India. Luscious sexual attractions and vulnerable offers lure the kids. Some reports of mishaps have already come into the surface. It’s really difficult to hinder such perpetrators.

Digital Revolution – Pros and Cons

Finally, we may compare social media to a double-edged sword: careful handling turns it into a boon, but even slight negligence can cause bloodshed.