I’ve already heard more than a few times the dreaded words of a child in the midst of summer break: “I’m bored.” Or my daughter’s version: “I’m Sooooo bored!” Of course the complaint is not an ...

Remember those endless childhood summers when you’d dramatically flop onto the couch and announce to anyone within earshot that you were “sooooo bored”? Turns out those excruciating moments of nothing ...

“Boredom is an urban phenomenon,” explains Dr Anjali Chhabria, president of the Bombay Psychiatric Society. • Sudhir (16) has been sitting at home the past two years. He isn’t physically impaired, ...