How Online Spaces Are Forging Strong Identities
I joined the Quint as in intern in the year 2017, when it was just a budding online platform for quirky ideas and authentic information. It enriched me and taught me the basics of web journalism workings. I was part of a time when being apolitical was not the corollary of being privileged, rather it was just a term of being politically inactive but aware. Now since the last few years, politics is mainstream and there are rarely any apathetic objectors left, which is essential. With the coming of the new government, an advancement in greater involvement of people can be seen, as the need arises for an active movement. Yes, now if one doesn't voice one's opinions, they can well be living in an ivory tower. The proliferation of politics and ideas is largely online now, in the digital world, which is a space of articulation, expression, assertion, discovery, dissent and verbal warfare: not all for the right causes, but thankfully, most of the times. Youngsters are gett...