New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Before it was banned in India, TikTok ate up unhealthy amounts of my day. I got a lot of eye-rolls when I said it but I loved the humour, the carefree attitude and the reality of the shorts that filled my feed-people hamming up the idea of looking out for one's friends (#sachadost), a man singing cheerily in a barrel in his backyard every morning, and takedowns of urban pretentiousness (#ameeronkiadatmeriadat). A lot of my friends called it "cringe", and they still do, but it's a word I can't bring myself to use for these videos. I loved the relative freedom the platform seemed to offer people to show a particular side of themselves to anyone out there in the world. Then, of course, Instagram came along with its bori...