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A diagnosis of student screen use in India, drawing on ASER 2024 and NCERT 2022. The same device could support learning but is often captured by entertainment and social feeds, with measurable costs to attention, sleep, and mental well-being.
Examines the design mechanics and usage scale of short-form video in India, separating documented harms from hype and tracing the opportunity cost.
Interprets Tele-MANAS call data and adolescent mental-health surveys as a public-health signal, not moral failure, and connects them to attention-extraction design.
Honest uncertainty about the attention economy—causality, culture, regulation, and the choices that will shape India's next decade.
A diagnosis of how India's digital-access success has inverted into an attention-extraction economy, using public government, academic, and industry sources to show the costs across attention, productivity, youth mental health, and social trust.