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As the nighttime siren sounds, the residents, usually farmers or sugar mill workers, must turn off their screens for the next hour and a half.
Digital Desk: Every evening at 7:00 p.m., a siren atop the
Bhairavnath temple in Mohityanche Vadgaon, a village in Maharashtra's Sangli
district some 350 kilometres from the state capital Mumbai, blares for 45
seconds. The sound of sirens is nothing out of the ordinary in the state's
sugar mill belt, where they announce the start or conclusion of the work shift
every day. The 7 p.m. temple siren, however, has a different meaning for the
villagers of Mohityanche Vadgaon.
Previously, when people needed to
unwind after a long day at work, they would scroll through social media while
watching the latest prime-time show or daily soap operas on television. Not any
longer.
As the
nighttime siren sounds, the residents, usually farmers or sugar mill workers,
must turn off their screens for the next hour and a half. Children can learn,
children can read, or people can simply spend quality time with each other or
their families.
It has been
nine months since the village's 3,500-odd residents have practised this daily
"digital detox," which has prompted surrounding settlements to follow
suit.
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