A study on growing use of smartphones among students should alarm us all. Surveying 400 school-going adolescents across Shopian, Kulgam, Anantnag, and Srinagar, researchers from the Department of Public Administration and Political Science, Cluster University of Kashmir (Amar Singh College), found that three in four students now spend upwards of four hours a day glued to a screen. Heavy users are far more likely to struggle with concentration, wake up exhausted, feel inadequate after scrolling through curated lives on Instagram and Snapchat, and report genuine distress when separated from their phones. More than half say........

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