India, July 23 -- After a long day, the family settles at the dinner table. Each member has had a different day, whether at school, work, running errands or attending events. But instead of feeling like a walk in the park, where you enjoy the comfort of ending the day with your loved ones nearby and have someone to vent to, dinner feels eerily silent.

The scraping of cutlery against plates, audio from random reels playing while scrolling and the ping of phone notifications are the only sounds as the gap between children and parents at times feels too deep to cross.

Parents may eventually ask, 'How was school?' only to receive a perfunctory one-word response. The lull of the conversation continues. Everyone is present physically but mass...