But all that is too little, too late for Nepalese political commentator, Karnak Dixit.

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"She's a tough task-master, " says Sheila Dixit, an old family associate who is now Delhi's chief minister.

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According to Dixit, up to 25% nomophobes reported accidents while messaging or talking on the phone, which includes minor road accidents, falling while going upstairs or downstairs and stumbling while walking.

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Where older stars such as Madhuri Dixit were once expected to have impeccable private lives (or at least present the appearance of one), newcomers are now finding it much easier to be their own person.

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"There is an increase in the nomophobic population in India because the number of mobile phone users has increased, " said Dr. Sanjay Dixit, one the researchers and the head of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine.

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With the augmented ownership and usage of smartphones among adolescents, Dixit says the young population is more at risk, partly because they can access the Internet through phones more easily, increasing the time spent on phones.

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In 1994, two economists, Avinash K. Dixit of Princeton and Robert Pindyck of MIT wrote an influential book called Investment Under Uncertainty that showed that, since so many investment decisions are irreversible, people wait to acquire more information before they jump in.

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