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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…

Samajwadi Party officials have been claiming these days that the popular MY alliance stands for Mahila plus Youth and not Muslim plus Yadav. How nice!…

I know what you must be thinking; this guy has gone crazy or is far away from the reality or maybe is an andh-bhakt. You…

Unemployment! Unemployment!! and Unemployment!!! Ever since BJP came to power, unemployment has been an issue. In fact, BJP ruled government is the only government in…

[Disclaimer: This is a satire on the current state of electoral politics/campaigns in UP and not a movie review. Spoiler Alert!] I recently watched a…