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From Sleeper Agents to Scrolling Minds, the New Manchurian Candidates

Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra in John Frankenheimer’s sinister ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (1962) Meta’s recent apology to the Indian government for briefly restricting a video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the turbulent education protests spearheaded by the Cockroach...
Cinema 
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Why do Indian superheroes fail to impress the audience?

Mumbai: Spider-Man continues to enjoy phenomenal success at the Indian box office, highlighting the country's enduring fascination with Hollywood superheroes. But the craze also raises an important question: Has Bollywood missed the opportunity to build its own superhero universe? India...
The Perfect Analysis 
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The Shape of Wars to Come

A future once imagined by science fiction and Hollywood has arrived on the battlefields of Ukraine, with autonomous machines taking on ever more dangerous combat roles. When Karel Čapek introduced the word “robot” to the world in his 1920 play...
Technology  War 
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