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When we think of film piracy, we usually picture a victim with a very fat wallet. A Bollywood blockbuster drops on a Friday. By midnight, a grainy, camcorded version hits a torrent site and an HD print in just a few days. Millions of people watch it on their phones for free. The studio’s opening weekend numbers dip, a billionaire producer fumes in a Mumbai boardroom, and highly paid actors miss out on a fraction of their profit-sharing checks. This is the conventional narrative of piracy. It is neat, predictable, and entirely incomplete. The true cost of film piracy doesn’t…

For years, India was described as a balancing power—important but cautious, large but reactive, managing the world rather than shaping it. That description is now…

The recently released TVF series Space Gen: Chandrayaan should have been a landmark moment for Indian prestige television.It had the budget.It had the backing of…

When Missiles Miss—and Narratives Explode Modern wars are not decided only by bombs and runways. They are decided by perception, credibility, and evidence. The India–Pakistan…

After Operation Sindoor in May 2025, a striking claim began circulating across social media: Pakistan may have accidentally shot down one of its own aircraft…