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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…

You must have heard the story about Chanakya, where he was walking and stepped over a thorn. The way he reacted to the incident was…

Two three months back some politicians, journalists were complaining that Indian government was not doing enough. Something like this: I will keep repeating this. The…

A few weeks ago two Sadhus were brutally lynched in a place called Palghar in Maharashtra. Infact the visuals were so disturbing that it was…

Ever since I started watching Bollywood movies, I would always see a corrupt politician and a failed system. Not in just one movie, but in…