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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…

Recently, Raj Shamani flew to London to interview Vijay Mallya for his show Figuring Out. In the episode, Mallya opened up about the downfall of…

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Indian TV screens were flooded with saffron-clad babas and godmen like Asaram Bapu and Nirmal Baba, peddling salvation…

The Russia-Ukraine war, raging since February 24, 2022, has redefined modern warfare. In July 2024 alone, Ukraine launched a swarm of 120 FPV (First Person…

War is a tragic and undeniable reality of human existence. Even a single death in the name of conflict is appalling, yet wars have persisted…