India, Sept. 19 -- In this age of perfection, where technology makes everything look so incredibly perfect, I miss the imperfections of a simple human life. We have somewhere stopped seeing beauty in things that are natural, verisimilar, lifelike and foible.

Our variegated traits, ideas, flaws, detours, mistakes and learnings, which once gave us a unique identity, are now submerged in the bubble of technology surrounding us. Suddenly we have so much to fix ever since technology engulfed us in its sweep. I am often left boxing my ideas, thoughts and feelings into set patterns of correctness and always trying to fit in rather than going with the flow of my natural accomplishments.

The compulsion to appear good in all walks of life is thro...