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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 the past few months, Bollywood industry in India has managed to stay in top headlines for every reason other than creativity, imagination, art or…

Covid-19 in India has once again exposed the incompetencies of political opposition as well as mainstream media in India. Although, from a superficial view, it…

Reading intellectual articles on internet last few days have been a great fun. “In the light of Prime Minister laying the foundation of Ram Mandir…