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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…

India doesn’t have a reservation problem anymore.It has a cowardice problem. The recent UGC “Equity” regulations controversy exposes something far uglier than bureaucratic incompetence. It…

Somebody on Instagram posted a real saying if anyone could list a single policy that the BJP government started from scratch. I thought I should…

The euphoria seen in certain Indian circles regarding Pakistan’s “diplomatic masterstroke” in Islamabad is not just misplaced—it is historically illiterate. To suggest that a state…