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Nishant Jain, from India, is an MSc Mechanical Engineering student specializing in biomechanical design.

“The internet is now an integral part of my life. Dependence on the internet has increased the same way that the internet itself has widened to reach across all kinds of services. Earlier, it used to be email and chat rooms and poor search engines. Now it’s social media, self-expression through blogs and websites, news through innumerable channels online, staying in touch with friends across the world and, of course, completing assignments. The internet is becoming the alternative to most things now.

When I can’t find books in English in the Netherlands or want to send gifts to India, shopping online is a great convenience and online shopping portals are ideal for that.
I’m a comedian. My webcomic - The Testimonial Comics (testimonialcomic.com) - has grown to what it is today just because of the internet. I update it about two times a week, on not very specific days. It’s about my life here, the things I grew up with in India and other incidents and conversations which I simply have with myself in my head. My webcomics help find my own self-expression through the internet. Without it, I doubt I could reach across to so many people. My comic is very important to me, and so that makes me very internet dependent. Comics today can instantly reach thousands of people all over the world, while I sit at my desk in Delft. That’s quite amazing. I sketch stick figures about my life, the things I see and lots of stuff I simply imagine! I think a slightly twisted and slightly screwed up mind is a very good thing, and I’m glad I’m putting mine to some use. In the short time I’ve been maintaining it, I think I’ve made some good progress. For the past few months, I’ve also been making a comic for a football magazine in India, and I have two national Indian press mentions about it too.

I’m always on the lookout for websites and personal blogs which show unique art styles, or amateur writers who write about interesting things. I think the web is full of hundreds of thousands of people expressing themselves from all the corners of the world. I’m always looking to find comics, articles, stories and art. I recently got hooked onto thoughtcatalog.com - it’s a wonderful place with multiple bloggers discussing random thoughts about everyday life and some quirky ideas too. I’ve always loved postsecret.com, a fan-submission based blog in which people anonymously send in their secrets on the back of a postcard. Some of these are innocent and cute, while others can be very haunting and even relatable. This is a very special online project!”

My favorites:
testimonialcomic.com
thoughtcatalog.com
postsecret.com
thedoghousediaries.com
xkcd.com
theoatmeal.com