On a day marked for brain health awareness, neurologists across India are drawing attention to a quiet crisis unfolding in the space between our screens and our sleep. The technologies that define modern productivity are dismantling the very cognitive foundations that make us productive — a self-defeating loop that medicine has long understood but culture has been slow to absorb. Sleep, long treated as negotiable, is in fact the brain's most essential maintenance window, and its erosion is measurable in rising rates of stroke, dementia, and mental fragility. The remedy, experts say, is not fou