A handful of protesters wave placards at Jantar Mantar; a phone catches thirty seconds of it, and by evening a whole generation stands convicted. Lazy. Distracted. Addicted to their screens. Incapable of finishing a thought without checking a notification.

There are many benefits to travelling around the country. Narrow-mindedness and many misconceptions break down on the road. If you travel from north to south or east to west, many prejudices fall away by themselves.

From mobile screens to bedrooms, from commerce to politics: what exactly is s*x: pleasure, power, obsession, or civilisation's biggest fixation?

Smarmore Castle, an addiction treatment centre in County Louth, is warning that gambling addiction remains one of the most underestimated and least visible forms of addiction, often going undetected until significant personal, financial and psychological harm has already occurred.

Those were the days. The moment summer vacations began, a child's world transformed. Some rushed off to their grandmother's house; others to a village where grandparents waited with open arms. There were mango orchards to climb, hills to explore, ponds to splash in, and endless afternoons spent reading comics under a fan that groaned in the heat.

The whistle of a speeding train cuts through the evening air. Four boys stand smiling beside a railway track, their mobile phones held high. One stretches his arm a little further for the “perfect selfie”. They laugh. They pose. They want one dramatic picture for social media. A second later, the train crushes them. Their final photograph never gets uploaded.