India, March 20 -- The age of social media has transformed the world and is shaping communication, culture, politics, business, and even personal identity, today. Social media has also had a profound impact on mental health, especially among the youth and Gen Z, contributing significantly to anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, cyberbullying and online harassment. A new British web series, Adolescence, that dropped on Netflix on March 13, has stunned the world by delving significantly and deeply into precisely this issue and how it impacts a 13-year-old boy and his family.

Adolescence is the story of 13-year-old schoolboy Jamie Miller who is arrested for killing his classmate, Katie, by brutally stabbing her multiple times. At the ou...