Isha Talwar: Helped my dad shift to online banking

The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown has forced everyone to adapt to the digital way of life – from banking and shopping to entertainment and communication. While it’s often the dads who would guide the younger ones in the family during a time of crisis, the lockdown has prompted reverse parenting, with the children teaching their dads to be independent and self-sufficient in this new norm.
This Father’s Day, we talked to actress Isha Talwar, who introduced and educated her father on the digital ways of life.
Isha had been trying to get her father Vinod, who is an executive producer in Bollywood, to shift to online banking for long. “We had several discussions and I kept telling him that it was faster and it’s the future. But he was always rigid that he would go to the bank to deposit the cheques because he felt that’s safer. However, the other day I finally made him sit down, helped with him digital banking and he happily did it,” she says.
The actress was at a farm during the lockdown and only got back to her family in Mumbai a few weeks ago. “So, my parents were on their own during that time. To do video calls, I had to send my dad screenshots on how to go about it, but now he has started teaching me. A few days ago, he got into a work-related video conference call, which I still don’t know how to do. So, we are both trying to teach each other things,” she explains.