Tag: ADDICTION

Do you know how most Indians are spending time this quarantine? Social media has become their go-to for news and entertainment.

Are we getting addicted to the instantaneity of social media, and losing what makes life meaningful: calmness and deep relatedness?

MATTER OF CONCERN Unrestricted accessibility of pornographic content leads to sexual violence that disrupts the very fabric of society. We live in a world where not only is the need for restriction over porn crucial but also fundamental for the wellbeing of society. Bharat Dogra

PERSPECTIVE / The information age characterised by knowledge revolution and an excessive usage of digital gadgets impacts the manner in which life is negotiated and issues are interpreted.  Despite its democratising features, the obsession with technology has resulted in cultural crisis. Chandrayee Goswami |

Telecommunications have brought a massive change in the way in which we interact, communicate and express ourselves. Here the author takes us on a journey of personal narratives about how the telephone meant different things to her at various stages of her life and what it would mean to live without them it, a change. Ankita Chatterjee

DIALOGUE | Are Smartphones the New Opium of the Masses? Obsession and diligent usage are often confused and this has often been the case as far as our relationship with technology is considered. Let us explore the layers of this complex debate through the author’s first-hand experience. Amir Sayed

DEBATE In hyper modern times mobile phones and social media platforms have brought about a new form of slavery into society. It is found that today we spend most of our time on phones compulsively addicted to social media.