Internet: A Tool to Interlink Indian Diaspora

摘要

Diaspora is the movement of people from any nation or group away from their own country (OAL dictionary). Indian Diaspora is a geographically diversified Diaspora, which is spread in as many as 110 countries. TheGovernment of India estimated that there are 30 million Indian Diaspora spread across the world. The nature of settlement of Indian Diaspora can broadly divided into two parts, namely ‘old Diaspora’ and ‘new Diaspora’. The prominent countries that figure in the old Indian Diaspora are Malaysia, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Guyana, and Suriname and the important countries with the new Diaspora are all the developed countries like – USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Apart from these two, a good number of Indians also live in the Gulf region. Science and technology brought valuable changes in human life. Internet emerged as a tool to interlink the diversified Indian Diaspora and it is a powerful medium in maintaining the sense of identity among the Indian diasporic community. It provides a feeling of belongingness with their ‘mother land’. Usage of internet across the world made a landmark of 360,985,492 to 2,095,006,005 from December 31, 2000 to March 31, 2011. The statistics clearly indicates that the growing number of internet users across the world. Various E-Tools provides an opportunity to meet the diversified Diaspora virtually. Internet acts as an intermediate to disseminate the motherlands social, political, cultural, educational and environmental issues to the diversified Indian Diaspora. People of Indian origin can be in touch with their home land using web and it also made the communication much faster than earlier days. In terms of cost internet is much more beneficial than any other means of communication. This paper emphasizes on the importance of internet while connecting the diversified Indian Diaspora across the world. Since the people of Indian origin living in various geographical areas, internet creates a virtual relationship and creates a sense of belongingness with their motherland. Intention of this article is to bring a light on various modes of internet which are playing effective role in interlinking Indian Diaspora.