There could be other negative impacts due to the lack of interaction among growing children in physical spaces, including behavioural issues, such as the absence of desitrable peer relationships, lack of opportunities to interact with students from other social identities and the internalizing of useful norms, etc. The argument in this paper is that despite the problems of the digital divide, there is going to be an`excessive’ use of technology in education in countries like India, even after COVID-19 and that could lead to certain adverse outcomes.