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 Janata Party (CJP) was yet another reminder that some of the most consequential battles of our time are fought in the invisible territory between grievance and manipulation. The larger issue

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 has produced memorable superheroes like Shaktimaan and the Krrish franchise, while Indian comics are home to several iconic characters. Yet, unlike Hollywood, the Hindi film industry has not c

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 R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), he imagined artificial workers who would eventually turn against their human creators. More than a century later, his unsettling vision is finding echoes not in factories, but on the battlefields of U