New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Our relationship with personal technology has always been shaped as much by ritual and received wisdom as by engineering. There's the repair-shop wisdom, the WhatsApp forwards, and age-old habits that continue to influence how people use their devices; which give them a comforting illusion of control.

However, most of these rituals are engineering fallacies, and while some of these ideas once had a kernel of truth, they are mostly no longer true. So, I did a deep dive to examine some of the most persistent myths in Indian tech culture-consider this a fact check of tech myths, if you will.

This is a pretty widespread tech superstition. The anxiety is understandable: Older nickel-based batteries (nickel-cadmium (NiCd...