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Government Of India Humanizes Gadgets In Fun Past Vs. Present Videos Celebrating 10 Years Of Digital India

1st July, 2025 marks 10 years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the mission that would change India’s digital experience forever, and make India more connected than ever before.  Yes, we’re talking about the ‘’Digital India Mission’’, which has completed 10 years today. In the last 10 years, life for Indians has become a lot easier.  Many tasks that were once offline and physical can now entirely be carried out digitally. This has led not only to reduced wastage but also a significant decrease in unnecessary travel and helped avoid long wait times. The best part is how it has facilitated a massive improvement in accessibility and quality of life. To highlight the same in a fun way, the Government of India has launched its ‘10 Years of Digital India’ campaign, through which they’re highlighting the drastic ways in which India has been digitised.   The government has highlighted the success of Digital India mission through various digital assets, and one of the best ways in which they’ve done this is through a series of videos showcasing ‘Humanized Gadgets’ of the past, telling the story of the present.  We think it’s brilliant how they’ve brought a human touch to these gadgets that we had been using for decades, but never thought about so deeply. Today, most of these are used at a much smaller scale due to how seamless digital processes have become. It’s almost like a love letter from the past to the present.   One of the biggest, if not the biggest advantages of Digital India has been Digital Documentation has been going paperless. No more spending 20 minutes in line for a printout or needing to carry 40 documents with you at all time, because today – all our documents are available just one tap away, through mediums like Digilocker.  The video shows an old photocopier machine giving a narration on how once it used to see 1000s of faces and identities everyday, printing countless documents.  That’s not the case anymore, the photocopier says ‘Ab yaha dhool kha raha hu’. Because in 10 Years of Digital India, 52 Crore users have moved 943+ Crore documents to Digilocker. So whether it’s your driving license, your 10th Marksheet, medical records or even your Aadhar Card, you’ll always be one tap away from accessing them – and they’re just as legitimate as the physical.  Back in the day, you had no way of quick, uninterrupted two-way communication, so you had no choice even during emergencies. But in the last 10 years, mobile manufacturing and network connectivity have been taken to the next level under digital India.  The video shows people making calls at STDs and PCOs, which narrate how ‘Har galli mohalle mei har baat hoti thi mere saath’. Everyone had to go to PCOs and STDs, insert coins, gather tokens and wait only to be connected for a limited duration.  But today, there is no more travelling, no more inserting coins and no longer waiting to make your call. Why? Because after 10 Years of Digital India, India is the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world with 300+ Mobile Factories and everyone has a phone in their pocket! Now, you can just take out your phone and talk to another person in a fraction of seconds, thanks to this rapid expansion of mobile manufacturing under the Digital India Mission and the Make In India initiative. The world was moving towards digital mediums for all their communication, and with an ever growing population – the need of being connected was more important for India than ever before! So while love letters and job applications being sent in through Post Office and Letter Boxes was common in the past, it’s barely even considered today. India needed something faster, more intimate and more instant.  And that’s exactly what India’s 5G rollout provided! 10 years ago, everything had to be sent through the letter boxes. If you didn’t have one near you, you had to visit post offices, sometimes only to find out they’re closed for the day! The letter box narrates the distant pase ‘Job application ho ya love letter, sab mujhse hokar guzarta tha’. Now this might sound a bit romantic, but in retrospect, it was hectic and things took much longer than they should’ve! Today after 10 years of Digital India, everything’s done digitally and with ease through our smartphones. Job interview? Video calls! Conversation with your loved ones? Video Calls!  This is all possible because India led one of the fastest 5G rollouts, with 5G Networks reaching 99.6% of districts within 22 Months! Remember arguing with shopkeepers over the quality or authenticity of notes, or having to struggle and ask around for change? Yeah, that’s what life was like for a very long time. Even worse was when you tried to withdraw or deposit money after going through a crowded line for the ATM machine, only for it to run out of cash or reject your notes. Even after all these struggles, for a very long time, the ATM boldly claimed that ‘Hum jaha khade hote the, line vahi shuru hoti thi’ But this too changed under Digital India! When the revolutionary UPI was introduced, India’s payment system climbed the rank as one of the world’s most advanced payments systems. Today, the flow of money is faster, more seamless and more efficient than ever before – with transactions over worth ₹25 lakh crore taking place every month in the last 10 years of Digital India! Besides the four key areas we mentioned, India’s 1.4 Billion people are taking advantage of countless more facilities, services and benefits that have been made possible under the past 10 years of Digital India. Whether it’s quick access to government facilities, ease of making payments, the benefits of securing documents online, the ability to communicate seamlessly, or even the ability to enjoy the entertainment with high-speed internet – the Government of India’s vision and work on ‘Digital India’ has made India a better place for all its citizens.

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Will Syria Normalise Relations With Israel?

Normalisation might be a step too far, but a return to a peace deal may be in sight. After nearly 14 years of war in Syria, the new government is resetting its regional relations, and a lot of focus is on what will happen with Israel. There are reports of talks between Syria and Israel, with timelines even being floated for potential normalisation between the two countries, which have technically been at war since the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Here’s what you need to know about possible normalisation between Syria and Israel: Syria and Israel have held direct talks, according to Israeli media, about potentially entering into a normalisation agreement. Communication between the two states has reportedly been facilitated by the United Arab Emirates, which established a backchannel for contact. Any agreement would likely be an extension of the Abraham Accords, an agreement brokered by the United States between some Arab states and Israel. The Abraham Accords were a top-down approach by Donald Trump during his first term as US president to get Arab states to formalise relations with Israel. They were signed in August and September 2020 by the UAE and Bahrain, and soon followed by Sudan and Morocco. Since then, Trump has worked to expand the accords by pushing more countries to sign agreements with Israel. Trump visited three countries in the Middle East in May, and, while in Saudi Arabia, he met Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and reportedly encouraged him to normalise relations with Israel. Possibly down the road, analysts say, but right now it would be nearly impossible, according to Syrian writer and author Robin Yassin-Kassab. There is a deep enmity between Syria and Israel, which heightened during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and Israel’s occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights. Israeli Defence Minister Gideon Saar said his country would insist on its occupation of the Golan Heights in any deal with Syria, and the Israeli army has gone deeper into the Golan, occupying homes and expelling people from the area. Many Syrians would oppose giving up the Golan to Israel, according to analysts. Still, many might welcome common-sense negotiations. “Syrians are split … because on the one hand people are exhausted, everyone recognises Syria cannot defend itself or fight Israel … so it’s good [al-Sharaa’s] negotiating,” Yassin-Kassab said, adding that a return to an agreement like the 1974 ceasefire is the most realistic option. About a week after then-President Bashar al-Assad fled Syria in December 2024, Israel’s parliament voted on a plan to expand settlements in Syria – illegal under international law. There are currently more than 31,000 Israeli settlers in the occupied Golan Heights. Syria, under al-Sharaa, has said it is open to peace with Israel and that it would uphold a 1974 ceasefire agreement between the two states, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on December 8 – the day al-Assad fled to Moscow – that he viewed the agreement as void. Israel attacked Syria repeatedly, destroying much of its military infrastructure and seizing Syrian territory near the border with Syria’s Golan Heights. Syria would likely ask for Israel to withdraw from the newly occupied area under a new non-aggression deal, though reports say the Golan Heights have not yet been discussed. In recent days, Israeli officials have said they are open to a deal with Syria, and Netanyahu reportedly asked US Special Envoy Tom Barrack to help negotiate one. Israel’s National Security Council head, Tzachi Hanegbi, has reportedly been overseeing discussions with Syrian officials. The talks include a US presence and are in “advanced stages”, according to senior Israeli officials who spoke to The Times of Israel. Figures close to al-Sharaa are reportedly asking for an end to Israeli aggression without Syria having to accept full normalisation, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported. Syria wants the Israeli attacks on Syrian territory to cease. There are concerns over Israel’s expanded occupation of the Golan Heights among many Syrians; however, it’s unclear if al-Sharaa’s government will demand the return of the occupied parts. Syria would, however, want Israel to pull out of the Golan proper and the parts it occupied over the last year. Israel also threatened the new Syrian government not to deploy soldiers south of Damascus, a region near its border with Israel. Israel has also tried to stoke sectarianism in this area, threatening to intervene to “protect the Syrian Druze” during sectarian-driven tensions between groups affiliated with the new Syrian government and Syria’s minority Druze community. While many in the Druze community have shown a distrust of Syria’s new government, many have also denounced Israel’s threats of intervention as a calculated stunt to cause further discord among Syrians. Netanyahu reportedly wants a security agreement – an update on the 1974 text – with a framework towards a total peace plan with Syria. US envoy Barrack claims the issue between Syria and Israel is “solvable” and has suggested they begin with a “non-aggression agreement”, according to Axios. Such a continued occupation of the Golan would likely upset many Syrians. “It’s too politically difficult [for al-Sharaa], even under American pressure and the continued threat of violence from Israel,” Yassin-Kassab said. Israel also reportedly has additional conditions: no Turkish military bases in Syria, no presence of Iran or Iranian-backed groups like Hezbollah, and the demilitarisation of southern Syria. Follow Al Jazeera English:...