What will kill us faster if we don’t get enough of it? Air, water and food naturally sit at the top of our hierarchy of needs. Sleep tends to come way behind. That’s the way we think and how we conduct our lives. Because its deficit does not kill immediately, Indians have taken to habitually economising on sleep. In a May 2023 study of those above 40 years of age across 20 Indian states and Union territories, the Agewell Foundation, a Delhi-based civil society organisation, found that one entire half of those surveyed suffer from sleep disorders of one sort or another. Nearly 70 per cent
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