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One of the central arguments of Grammar of Screens is that unrestricted social media is reshaping childhood, attention, and the development of human thought, making age-based safeguards increasingly necessary. Encouragingly, governments around the world are beginning to reach a similar conclusion. Australia, Brazil, and Indonesia have already introduced nationwide restrictions on children’s access to social […]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to let a Texas law, requiring app stores to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for minors’ downloads and purchases, remain in effect has brought a central question of The Grammar of Screens into sharp relief. Published in May 2026, the book argues that screens are not neutral channels. […]

Fortuitously, the recommendations of a fictional symposium described in the2025 novel “Fatal Divides” by Tanweer Ahmed, have become the main themesof the Delhi AI Declaration in 2026. In the Grammar of Screens, he writes “Every revolution arrives with a vocabularyof hope. The digital one promised connection without distance, knowledgewithout gatekeepers, equity without waiting. Screens would […]

Abdul Qudus Saggu, a lifetime teacher of English language & literature in Pakistan and abroad, commented on the GOS: Excited to share a brilliant new book by a dear friend! With great pleasure and pride, I want to introduce the talented poet and now internationally published author, Tanweer Ahmed. Tanweer and I go back to […]

Chapter TenWhen all about this digital episode of human adventure wouldhave been told through the lives of characters like Aliya, Richard,Bram, Emily, Sara, Ahmad, Hamza, and Salika, words of MilanKundera—“Insignificance, my friends, is the essence of existence”—will resonate louder. Yet the downside of the Internet-incited socialmedia reflected in the school shootings in the USA, the […]