The Screen in Their Hands

A mobile phone can be a window to knowledge, communication and opportunity. But when that window becomes the centre of a child’s world, it begins to shut out everything around it. Across Kashmir, as elsewhere, children are spending increasingly long hours on smartphones—watching short videos, playing online games, scrolling through social media and moving from one digital stimulus to another. What begins as a convenient way to keep a child occupied can gradually turn into dependence. The concern

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