CELL PHONE

Have you not seen/experienced –
1. A doctor using his mobile phone while examining his patient.
2. an adolescent using mobile by holding the same between his tilting neck and shoulder while driving his high speed bike on a busy road.
3. A grown up gentleman driving his four wheeler in a very busy locality of city with one hand on steering and the other on his ear, holding mobile. His wife and his children may be seen with him in the car.
4. You are delivering lecture in a seminar and audience mobiles start ringing.
5. You are traveling in Rajdhani express taking deep sleep and a mobile of co-passenger starts ringing with pop tones.
6. A saint in meditation keeping his mobile on his Aasan.
7. You are engaged in serious talks with your friend and his mobile starts ringing.
8. You are presenting your best project of your career before your boss and he signals to keep your mouth shut because he has received a call from his daughter – 2 years old.
9. You are in bath room and your mobile starts calling you.
10. You are taking your dinner, enjoying your favorite dish and undesired calls start playing the role of kabab men haddi.
11. You are offering prayer in a temple and another devotee, standing by you, starts talking loudly on his cell phone.
To keep a latest cell phone and using the same on a public place has become a fashion and status symbol. It is the most popular birth day gift from parents to their children. Every month 15 million consumers are added to the telecommunication network. In our country nearly 36.67 crore mobile consumers have been registered upto Jan. 2009. By the end of the year 2010, 50 crore people of India are expected to be registered mobile holders. Our country is the biggest market of cell phones. A good chunk of family budget is now spent on bills of mobile phones. It is more than the money spent on milk, vegetables and fruits. Sale of cold drink is now touching its lowest ever level because middle/lower class youth prefers to use his pocket money in purchasing top up card for his mobile, instead of wasting money in cold drinks and ice creams.
Mobile phones are snatching peace from our life. Latest world wide researches say that continuous use of mobile phones have dangerous side effects. It may result in brain-cancer (temporal lobe), heart attack, undefined headache, depression, anxiety, hyper tension etc. Road accidents have touched sky height due to use of mobile phones. The continuous and free entry of high power micro waves from transmission tower to your bed room may prove hazardous. Peace loving and health loving people must think now how to minimize its use. Explosion of atoms may convert Nagasaki and Hiroshima into ruins but controlled explosion of atoms in nuclear power station may lighten the houses of millions and millions. It is we, who have to decide how to use the boon of science and technology in our life.