The Rise of a Teenage Tech Titan

In Kochi, 15-year-old Uday Shankar is transforming the world of artificial intelligence. As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Urav Advanced Learning Systems Pvt Ltd, Uday’s journey from a school dropout to an AI innovator is a thrilling tale of passion, perseverance, and impressive achievements.

The Summer of Choices

Imagine 10-year-old Uday standing at a crossroads between swimming lessons and robotics classes. “It all started during my summer vacation,” Uday recalls with a grin. “My mom gave me a choice, so I chose robotics.” Instead of relaxing with a typical summer pastime, Uday plunged into the world of tech. That summer decision? It was like choosing between a splash and a leap into the future.

Turning a Pandemic Pause into a Fast-Forward Play

When the world hit pause due to the pandemic, Uday hit fast forward. With schools closed, he immersed himself in Python programming, learning from YouTube tutorials and a Bellary Institute professor. He also completed the Certificate of Completion of Prerequisite Course for Serious Game Development with AI from MIT and the Certificate in Python for Machine Learning Neural Networks and Deep Learning from IIT Kanpur. His drive led to groundbreaking projects like 3rDi 4 All, an app designed to assist the visually-impaired, which was selected for the Kerala Government’s Young Innovator Programme. For Uday, what seemed like the world closing doors was an invitation to innovate.

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89-year-old Japanese retiree, Tomiji Suzuki, defied traditional views of retirement to embrace the complex world of programming and use ChatGPT to improve his skills. He has developed 11 free iPhone apps to help his fellow seniors, including his latest: a slideshow of items to remember when leaving the house, from a wallet and hearing aids to patient registration cards. He was inspired to create “Outing Prep Voice Slide Show” after realising he had forgotten his dentures just before boarding a bullet train. To develop the app, Suzuki asked ChatGPT approximately 1,000 coding-related questions. He hails ChatGPT as a “great teacher” and has even published a book on using it as a programming mentor.

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Google PlayStore has rolled out a Government badge to help users identify legitimate government apps and avoid downloading fake apps that impersonate official/government ones to steal personal/financial data or money. The badge is available to users in several countries including India, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico. Tapping the badge reveals the app’s link to the government entity and confirms its authenticity.

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In my student days, I listened mainly to BBC World Service radio for news and features. I could also listen to, among others, Radio Moscow, Deutsche Welle Germany, even Beijing (then Peking), all in English, on shortwave radio. My favourite music came from Radio Ceylon. Like the BBC, the Voice of America, too, increased my knowledge of the wide world outside. I even learnt to distinguish British and American English accents and usages.

I’m retired now. But as far as radio is concerned, my interest has only grown. Because of good, clean radio, I have unsubscribed to cable TV for the past several years. Most people see radio as something from a bygone era, but the truth is radio today is far better than in my student days. The programming is wonderful. So are technical standards — thanks to digital online streaming, and the ease with which a radio announcer can connect with people living across the world. The sound is crystal clear. And you no longer need a “real radio” any more. It’s done with an app downloaded to my phone, my laptop, iPad, even to a car’s player.

There are several such apps, but very popular is the one I use: TuneIn Radio. It brings you any radio station in the world with its ‘Search’ feature. It’s free and works without a glitch. There’s live radio and podcasts too. If you enjoy podcasts, look for another app on Google Play Store. It’s called Podcast Republic, on which you can save your favourite podcasts and keep track of your listening.

The same BBC World Service of my youth is there, and I still listen to much more than the news. The regular features include Outlook (human-interest stories about ordinary people who did extraordinary things), The Forum (where leading experts discuss history, culture and ideas), World Business Report, World Book Club, More or Less (which analyses statistics from our everyday lives), Inside Science, and Witness History. There must be over a hundred such features on various subjects on BBC Radio alone. As for Radio Ceylon, my favourite music still flows. It’s now called SLBC Radio Sri Lanka.

Television does not offer as many choices as radio does. TV also ties you down — you have to sit and watch. With radio, you can listen while you cook, clean, garden or whatever else. I may stroll from one room to another with a radio station playing on my cellphone. I listen with headphones during my evening walks in the park (Warning: avoid headphones on the road!). In fact, the radio is on all the time when I’m oil painting. (For better audio, you may rig your phone to speakers, Bluetooth or wired.) It’s like being able to read a book while doing another useful thing. Those who have only got their news and features from TV won’t understand how much efficiency, learning and joy radio can bring.

Unless you give it a try. Go ahead — tune in.

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We’re all excited to bring in the Year of Kindness, a unique initiative launched by the Rotary and Rotaract Clubs of Mumbai Bravehearts, The Teenager Today, Kindness Unlimited and the World Kindness Movement, this month!

A vital aspect of this movement is the mobile and web app that will drive this initiative to identify, track and acknowledge acts of kindness across the world.

The Kinder Logo

Designed by Think Creative, Mumbai, the KINDER logo plays on the top bar of the E. It is transformed into a hand moving upwards. Three similar hands lead the way, signifying ‘helping hands’ and symbolizing acts of kindness. They are shaped like birds giving the impression of birds taking flight. This is to depict the ‘Pay It Forward’ principle — many kind acts being paid forward gives the movement wings to encompass the world. The orange colour signifies fire, the energy that comes from a movement of this kind, where every person and every hand strengthens the cause of creating a kinder world.

The KINDER App

What does the KINDER App do?
The KINDER app, developed by Inventeam Solutions Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, enables you to record instances of kindness, enter details of the beneficiary of the kindness and track your web of kindness as it spreads, one act at a kind.

What are the features of the KINDER App?
The Android and iOS versions of the app will be available for download from 27 March when we launch the movement.

The salient features of the app are as follows:

1. An easy-to-use interface that makes it very simple for anyone to navigate through.

2. You will need to register yourself on the app with your mobile number and other basic details.

3. Begin your Kindness journey by recording a kind act that you have done or a kind act that has been done to you.

4. Acts of Kindness have been broadly classified as done to: Oneself, another person, another living being (plants, animals, birds, etc.) and the environment.

5. Specify the type of act, the time involved in the act as well as the monetary value as applicable. Describing the act in detail will give us a repository of inspiring stories which we hope to feature in The Teenager Today, month after month!

6. If you are recording a kind act, provide the name of the beneficiary of the act or the initiator, depending on whether you are a giver or receiver, and a mobile number for the same. If no mobile number is provided, the Act of Kindness will still be recorded against the name of the initiator; unfortunately, it won’t be able to track it any further.

7. The app will generate a message for the persons who received the kind acts, asking them to spread the movement by doing a kind act to somebody else, downloading the app and begin recording their own journey of kindness.

8. Participate in the campaign as an individual and/or as part of your school, college, company or any other organization, if your organization decides to participate as a unit.

9. The app will display your history of kind acts, initiated by you and received by you, which you can access at any time.

10. At the back end, the app will track the length of the kindness chain for each individual and organization, entities with the kindest acts, entities inviting maximum people and organizations to the cause, the geographical spread of the movement and many such parameters.

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Raising a threat to China’s web conferencing solutions in the world market, Vconsol, a new product developed by a young web research and development company, Techgentsia Software Technologies Pvt Ltd, from Cherthala in Alleppey district of Kerala became the one-crore worth winner of the Prime Minister’s Innovation Challenge.

While announcing the winner on 20 August 2020, Minister of Electronics, Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad, noted that it gives an indication of the changing India where technological advancements can take place even in small towns. Thus, a locally-made Vconsol becomes an Indian solution to web conferencing while pushing down the entry of Chinese-American app Zoom and Google Meet and beating giants like HCL and Cisco.

The company will get financial support of Rs 10 lakh for the next three years for operation and maintenance and will be the official web conferencing solution partner for the Government of India during this period. When asked about the experiences of the company in the venture, its co-founder and CEO, 43-year-old Joy Sebastian humbly says: “It’s a team effort. The co-founder of the company, Tony Thomas, and CTO Ankur Deep Jaiswal have done a great job along with the entire team of 50 members to achieve this.”

The Indian achievement comes on the eve of a survival challenge in the global pandemic condition that hit India’s and China’s billion club population putting them in social distancing and travel restrictions for months along with other nations. Thus, quantum leap innovations of this kind from India are an indication of her potential to become an active player in world software technology market. “It is time for India to become a country where apps are also uploaded… Since video conferencing was an important instrument, we always discussed the possibility of a ‘Made in India’ video conferencing. The government is committed to developing India’s software product and mobile app economy in a big way and efforts like this will take us a long way in that direction,” the minister added.

To develop Vconsol was not an easy task for Joy Sebastian. “Security aspects of the product are a great concern for us. Vconsol is the result of a ten-year-long research of Techgentsia. While the government’s task was to develop a web conferencing solution that can actively participate 25 people, we developed a solution to accommodate 100 active participants and another 300 spectators at the same time. It will work even at a low internet speed. It does not require different video streaming for each person that enriches the data quality and ensures less data usage compared to other solutions,” Joy Sebastian explains.

The Innovation Challenge was open for participation from industries, start-ups and individual experts. The competition was held in three stages — Concept, Prototype and Product Stage. Among the 1,983 companies selected for submitting the prototype only 12 were shortlisted for the next stage and were given Rs 5 lakh to develop the prototype. In the third stage, five companies were selected and Rs 20 lakh each was given to three companies and Rs 15 lakh each for two companies to develop the final product in one month.

The homegrown video app, Chingari, is an answer to TikTok, which won first prize in the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge in the social category and will receive Rs 20 lakh. The second and third winners are YourQuote, India’s largest writing app, and Koo News app, winning Rs 15 lakh and 10 lakh respectively. The jury identified 24 apps for prizes across all categories and another 20 apps for special mention. The app innovation challenge sought entries for nine different categories.

India’s call to boycott Chinese products in the wake of the Galwan Valley skirmish on 15 June 2020 that claimed the lives of 40 Chinese soldiers and 20 Indian soldiers, created an anti-China sentiment even at the local level. However, promoting desi solutions within a short period is practically very difficult due to India’s high dependency on China for parts, hardware and many other items. India has $75 billion worth imports from China every year. Hence, making India ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’ is an emotional goal which cannot be achieved without engaging youngistan in boosting small scale local production in all walks.

A self-reliant India does not mean cutting off from rest of the world. Many start-ups and young IT companies have silently made an entry in the global market. As Joy Sebastian puts it: “We have clients worldwide. Europe-based Easy Meeting, U.S based Kaipura Inc. Corp., Brand Commerce, Ireland-based I-Connect are some of our clients. We give solutions to Mumbai-based Global One, C-dac in Trivandrum and ITI Ltd. Indian Startups are getting a momentum in the global market.”

Apparently, India has shifted her focus to many other fields to enhance self-reliance during the pandemic. The personal protective equipment (PPE) sector of India has grown from zero to 1,50,000 pieces a day in two months by the beginning of the month of May. It has a capacity to produce more than two lakh kits a day. The PPE industry in India is worth Rs 7,000 crore (U.S. $980 million) and in two months it grew second only to China. In another venture, India re-purposed her various automobile sector industries to collaborate in ventilator-making. Announcement of a ‘Made in India’ 5G network by Reliance Jio using 100 per cent homegrown technologies and solutions is another important shift.

Among many such shifts in the recent past, the relevance of success of Techgentsia is to be analysed for its vision to bring in a revolutionary change in the space of formal IT education. Joy Sebastian reveals, “My company gives more importance to talent pool than any reputation of an engineering institute. We are even not bothered to know whether the aspirant is an engineering graduate or not. Our team has employees who did not complete an engineering degree and some others have joined engineering college to get a degree after availing their expertise from Techgentsia.”

Adding more to its vision, he says, “Our company has a vision to rebuild the society around us. It is our social responsibility to engage in developing people around us to ‘hi tech locals’ by providing human resource and IT solutions for better community life. My preference is to give job to more people in my locality. When I failed to clear interviews of world companies due to my local flavour, I decided to bring the world into my locality.”

Efforts of Techgentsia could be re-read in a post-Covid world order as a company that makes a difference with its vision at par with the concept ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’. Its product, Vconsol, is the best example of ‘local’ becomes ‘vocal.’ In a country like ours where being elite means western-educated and being local is considered inferior, a vernacular-school-trained man from a coastal hamlet sets his goal in the world market, posing challenges to multinationals, using local human resources in the IT sector and showing that the way forward is to tame the dragon.

JOY SEBASTIAN “A voyage to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield!”

The voyage of Joy Sebastian, son of a fisherman, from Cherthala of Alleppey district of Kerala is ‘to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield’. Joy’s parents, Sebastian and Mary, struggled hard throughout the year to keep the pot boiling with their meagre income from seasonal fishing. Their children, Joy, and his elder brother, Job, were brought up in a government-sponsored one-room colony where education was a luxury. The parents had to choose between buying textbooks and day-to-day ration. A determined mother, Mary, always preferred spending on her children’s education to household expenses and even restrained her husband from buying an ordinary fishing boat of their own. The children could not think of new clothes or a good meal, especially during the rainy season. Their struggle came almost to an end when Job completed his polytechnic education and got a job. The family was on the verge of fortune when he got an appointment in a polytechnic college as a lecturer, but he died in a bike accident before joining. Struggling, Joy continued his MCA getting a scholarship from the company where his brother worked and with the support of friends, and by giving tuitions. He could not get through many interviews because of poor communication, as he had only vernacular schooling. “Even poor family background would have adverse effect on your talent during interviews,” Joy recalls. “That is why I decided to rebuild myself without having any support from corporate companies,” he added. Joy always keeps a village touch, and looked for quality and talent in the applicants to his company rather than looks and high grades. “Most of the employees in my company are from our locality as my vision is to give jobs to local aspirants and to give them a decent livelihood!” He started his office from home in 2007 getting assignments from a company where he was working. His company, Techgentia, was registered in 2009 with zero investment with a friend Tony Thomas as co-founder. Techgentia expanded in 2013, shifting the office to a hired building in Ernakulam. For more than a year, they had to really struggle hard, depending only on one client; slowly started getting more clients, also shifting the office to Info Park, Cherthala. From here the company started its success journey along with an array of international clients. With a desi touch and maintaining international standards, Techgentia has now won the one crore worth Innovation Challenge, beating HCL and SOHO and challenging web conferencing solutions like Zoom and Google Meet.

Courtesy: Indian Currents

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There are literally millions of apps available today, from music to banking, that help people perform specific tasks. People who create such apps, known as developers, are high in demand. From a job security and job growth standpoint, it’s one of the best careers you can possibly imagine being in. The pay is competitive, and your career will help modernize the world.

What’s this career about?

A mobile application is a software designed for a smart phone or tablet for productivity or entertainment.

An app developer is a computer software engineer whose primary responsibilities include creating, testing and programming apps for mobile phones and other electronic devices. They write programmes inside of a mobile development environment using the Objective C, C++, C# or Java programming languages.

Mobile app development is a little different from general software development. Here resources such as memory, compute cycles, storage and bandwidth are both scarce and precious. Developers first choose the operating system (or mobile platform) such as Google’s Android or Apple’s iOS, then use programming languages such as Java and C++ to develop the necessary specifications for software. Once an app is complete and goes into production, the app developer works on creating patches (upgrades) that are periodically released to the public.

A career in mobile app development presents an excellent opportunity to try new things and satisfy your curiosity. Developers typically specialize in a specific development area, such as mobile phone applications, graphics software, accounting software or office suites. They work for themselves just as often as they work for small, medium and large sized companies, building ‘native’ experiences that allow people to complete tasks, consume content and interact with brands and other people.

Marketing firms often conduct research in order to gather information relating to consumer needs. This information is then passed on to app developers who create new applications that meet the public’s needs in terms of use and cost. Several versions are made of the same basic application that can be read by different types of devices.

PLUS!

• How do I get there?
• Key skills
• Institutes
• Employment prospects
• Pay packages

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While the company has a zero-tolerance policy towards child sexual abuse, it has become quite easy for people to use WhatsApp to promote Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

The short messaging app that we all depend on these days for chatting, making video calls, sharing quick information, jokes or delicious recipes has a major flaw. Of course, any new technological advancement has its pros or cons but the app seems to have faltered in fixing it. And the app is none other than Facebook-owned WhatsApp.

The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) shows a steady increase in crimes against children, more specifically child sexual abuse. It also says that people who are close family members often exploit children. But WhatsApp has added another dimension to it. While the company has a zero-tolerance policy towards child sexual abuse, it has become quite easy for people to use the app to promote Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

It first came into the limelight when two Israel-based NGOs — Netivei Reshet and Screensaverz — kept an eye on certain people who were spreading CSAM. Unlike the chats and messages which are encrypted by WhatsApp to ensure privacy of the user, certain people promoting CSAM can be easily identified through the profile pictures they use or with the group name.

The NGOs said that despite this WhatsApp failed to identify such people. The NGOs revealed that there were many Indian contacts as well among these groups. Similar reports came out in November 2018, when an Indian NGO, Cyber Peace Foundation, revealed that there were a few third-party applications that could easily provide public links to such groups. And joining such groups was just a click away.

The Indian government took the issue very seriously and asked WhatsApp to hand over the details of such people. However, the tech company mentioned its privacy policy and end-to-end encryption does not allow it to do so.

Over the past three months, the company has banned around 2.5 lakh accounts every month, based on the unencrypted data. Even Google and Apple have taken off such third-party apps from their platforms in order to curb the menace. But the Foundation has revealed that such groups are still operational. They have certainly changed their modus operandi. The research reveals that while the third party apps have been removed, the .apk files are still available online. In other words, people can still search for these files, download .apk versions and join these groups with publicly available invite links. In fact, these groups can easily be identified with their names, as they openly seek CSAM. In most of the cases, the group images or display pictures show obscene or sexual activity, often involving children or minors. Some media reports have suggested that these groups are named like “cp,”. Here, ‘cp’ stands for ‘child porn’.

The report also suggests that some of these groups reach their maximum membership limit within a few minutes of their formation. Some of the groups are formed with rules like “only cp videos”, “Must send 10 videos per day to every member. If any member does not send I’ll remove him without warning”. And there are several groups, which solicit physical contact with children or even with adults at a price with details like coverage area, time, etc. In other words, that which initially seemed to be only content, actually may result in physical contact with the child. Imagine your child falling prey to such activities and leading a scarred life, without having the guts to inform you what he/she has gone through. Or a close contact forcing your child to do certain acts for the purpose of a picture or a video shoot and sharing it on such groups. And someone then expresses the desire to touch your child and even going beyond that for a few bucks!

In other words, what we as educated citizens, were trying to tackle by educating our children on what is termed as a good touch or bad touch, may not be enough to ensure their safety. Yes, it is important to teach them about their body parts, their sanctity, their rights or having a no-secret policy. We have to be equally cautious of what happens in their surroundings, especially in schools, or playgrounds. For parents, that seems to be the only way out. It is very important to tell your child that no one should take pictures of their private parts. And the last would be to tell them, how to come out of such scary or uncomfortable situations. As parents, you can devise certain code words which your child can use to alert you during a party or when you have guests at home or they play, etc. Often perpetrators tell children, “I love playing with you, but if you tell someone else what we played they won’t let me come over again”. Or it can be a threat: “This is our secret. Don’t tell this to anyone. If you tell this to anyone, I will tell, it was your idea. You will be in big trouble.” As a parent, it is necessary to alert your child.

As for WhatsApp, or for that matter any game or tech app, if your children use it, you need to use certain parental controls to ensure that he/she does not fall prey to such online abuse or he/she is not exposed to such groups which can be easily joined, as children and adolescents have the tendency of exploring new things. Sometimes, they may land themselves in trouble. The only key to ensure that your child tells you everything is not to question but to be as friendly as possible. Make them feel comfortable so that they tell you everything, without being judgmental and avoiding those usual statements that start with: “If you did this… you would land in trouble” or “this may harm you”. Such statements often arouse their curiosity to an extent that they may try certain things. A more effective way of making kids aware could be in a story form, alerting them of the consequences or showing them videos or movies or illustrative books, and then answering their questions in a polite and non-judgemental way. Trust is one of the most important factors while dealing with children. You may at times be worried about your own personal or work life, but it is important to listen to your child carefully. A slight lack of interest may send the wrong signals. Your child may not feel comfortable and may not share issues that he may be facing, perhaps on the school premises or in the bus that he uses for travelling from and to the school, or in the playground or in those four walls that is termed as the most safe zone — our home.

WhatsApp has promised to upscale its capacities to control such groups or accounts known for spreading CSAM. Parents should do their bit in educating their child, understanding any slight change in his/her behaviour and most importantly, by listening carefully and taking appropriate action. While there is no way of eradicating child sexual abuse fully, it can certainly be reduced if parents start this conversation early on with their child. And reinforce it as frequently as possible.

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Digital media has invaded our lives and our minds. We are bombarded by what is an overdose of digital information almost translating into an epidemic that may be termed digital infobesity (information excess). We are constantly in touch with the world through digital media checking WhatsApp messages, Facebook status updates and posts, tweeting away and posting pictures of our lives on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

Positive aspects of digital media

However, one of the most important positive aspects of digital media is social connectivity. It helps in enhancing awareness about the world and connecting with human beings all over the world. Digital media keeps us updated about all the news and happenings from all over the world which is made available at a swipe or touch of a button via the internet. Besides updating ourselves through social media and connecting to our well wishers, there are many mobile applications that make life easier and save our time and effort. Consider the role of Google Maps and navigation applications. Here our smartphone directs us to our destination with the help of Google Maps or a GPS system while alerting us about mishaps and traffic situations along the way. Similarly, we have stopped using notebooks or diaries to write appointments and in fact do not carry paper and pen anymore. We just click a photo of any important information and store it on our phones.

Sharing information and data became easier with the help of Bluetooth and articles, books or pictures can be easily shared via applications like WhatsApp. These days, the phone has replaced the camera and provides us better or almost equivalent images. Mobile companies keep luring people by flaunting the megapixels of their cameras and phones that enhance selfies are now available including cameras that click perfect pictures at night. Social networking sites can be accessed through our cell phones and thus people are on their phones most of the time unaware of what is happening around them. Besides useful work applications, the phone is a source of entertainment, such as music players, videos, gaming, etc., which attracts kids and adolescents towards the smartphone or tablet. It is important that we realize that while digital media is useful we should not become slaves to its grandeur.

What damage has digital media done?

Digital media has taken over our lives completely. Human beings have always been a species that has communicated via speech. Digital media has transformed that communication into messages and text communications whereby human beings have forgotten the art of speaking to one another. When one visits parks and cafes, one is exhumed to see that people are so busy on their gadgets that social visits now involve multiple groups of human beings desk bound and torpid but glued to their devices and gadgets, and in fact, many of them may message or forward messages to the person in front of them!

Gaming and social media

An obsession with gaming has led to a mad race to complete levels and display gaming accomplishments online. Gaming communities serve to replace one’s family and relatives and draws the gamer into a different realm where he is satisfied with his virtual gaming community and feels no need to associate with the real world. There is the acquired tendency to check devices from time to time and this may happen at any time of the day or even in the middle of the night. Digital media bewitches us and we are plagued with the morbid fear of missing out on something that the world may know and we may not know because we have not checked our mobiles. Every Facebook like and Instagram heart matters and there is a need to have more likes and hearts than our friends. Every comment received on Facebook is regarded as a positive and failure to get any can drive one to the brink of despair.

Effects on sleep

Very often digital devices are used at night and this leads to a cutting down on one’s sleep time. This leads to new problems in the form of daytime sleepiness, physical illness and decreased immunity that makes one prone to various infections and other disorders. Children are not spared either. There is the emergence of the birth of a digital toddler who is now conditioned in a Pavlovian manner to gadgets that serves as surrogate babysitters. The emotions of young children respond more to gadgets and their beeps or videos rather than to the voice of a parent. While these provide reprieve to the parents, it is priming the child to become hooked onto digital media in the long run. There is a generation of children who are born digital and primed digital and the ethical and rational use of digital media is a tenet that remains untaught and unchartered.

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