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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…

The news has sent shockwaves through the financial and sporting worlds: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) has been acquired by a consortium including the Aditya Birla…

There is a cold, calculated arrogance currently drifting through the air-conditioned boardrooms of the Indian elite. It is the smell of money—specifically, money that smells…

Once I saw the movie, I realized why some are calling it BJP propaganda. In fact, a lot of reviewers specifically mention that the movie…

Dhurandhar dropped strong hints about the fake currency nexus—how the system operates, who prints the currency, how it is transported, and who the stakeholders are.…