India has answers to the biggest question of our time: Arianna Huffington

BENGALURU: Young Indians are falling prey to depression in larger numbers, spurring concern at the highest levels about the spread of mental health problems that has been likened to an ‘epidemic’.
As a quarter of the country’s teenagers succumb to this affliction, experts — who regard a flawed relationship with technology as the primary causative factor — are calling for solutions that draw on ancient Indian learning based on balancing action with reflection and compassion.
The notion that success comes at a cost with the price being ‘burnout’, is one that has been debunked by science, according to author and businesswoman Arianna Huffington, who is championing a global initiative to recalibrate the role of tech in modern life.
“I am particularly keen to speak to India’s millennial generation — the generation most impacted by technology,” said Huffington, the founder of global health and wellness platform Thrive Global.
She is scheduled to host a digital town hall on microblogging site Twitter on January 3 in Mumbai.
“I truly believe that, more than any other place on earth, India has the answers to the biggest question of our time: how we work and live in an age when change is exponentially faster and technology has permeated every aspect of our lives,” she said in a statement. Thrive Global, which offers digital and offline learning modules designed to combat stress and burnout, was set up in the US in 2016.
Huffington, who launched the company’s Indian operations last June, exhorted Indian millennials to “think of it as an opportunity to set individual and collective New Year's resolutions,” in what she described as her “favourite country on the planet.”
“This embrace of ancient India must be led by the future of India,” said Huffington, who earlier co-founded Huffington Post and is a member of the board at Uber. Last year, Thrive announced a partnership with Times Bridge, an investment firm that is part of the Times Group, which publishes The Economic Times.