screen-free retreats

More Indians are escaping screens and rediscovering silence, nature, and themselves one offline getaway at a time.National Times Bureau, July 21, 2025 — Amid buzzing notifications, endless scrolls, and work emails that chase us even into our dreams, a quiet rebellion is brewing. A new tribe of urban Indians is trading WiFi for waterfalls, and blue light for bonfires, by signing up for digital detox retreats.These aren’t just vacations they're conscious pauses. The kind where phones are locked away, social media is off-limits, and conversations happen face-to-face under starlit skies, not in comment threads.Nestled in places like the Sahyadris, the…