One day we logged on to the internet, and then we never logged out.
On 15 August 1995, India officially logged on to the internet. If you're a young Indian today, you come from a generation that used to dream of the endless possibilities that came with having the world at our fingertips, and now must cope with its realities. India's Gen Z is inextricably tied to the internet - connected in more ways
than one. To understand one, you must understand the other.

From the quiet potential of the early internet to Bollywood's clumsy depictions of youth culture, from tote bags and trending aesthetics to anonymous hate and viral fame, from Ask.fm to AI, Never Logged Out by 'extremely online' Gen Z writer Ria Chopra tries to make sense of her generation and how they love, shop,
and live on the internet.

In eight essays, each posing questions about selfhood, love, memory, privacy, anonymity, knowledge, fame, and ambition, Never Logged Out interrogates how the internet makes and breaks this generation. Fresh, funny, and startlingly insightful, Ria weaves together personal anecdotes, cultural commentary, and a sharp understanding of her generation and the world today into a first-of-its-kind book about the experience of growing up on, with, and because of the Indian internet.

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Ria Chopra lives in New Delhi, but you will usually find her online. Her writing on India's young people and internet culture has appeared in Vogue, VICE, Buzzfeed, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Refinery29, Insider, and The Quint, and meme pages that routinely keep reposting her viral takes, tweets and work. She is a Youth Advisor to Google via the research agency Canvas8. Her portfolio career and innumerable side quests have taken her from a leadership summit at the Google HQ in Mountainview, California, to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to present her work, and to the hotseat of Kaun Banega Crorepati as a contestant. Never Logged Out is her first book. You can follow her work at riachops.com and on Instagram and X via @riachops.