The humid October air over West Bengal’s political landscape felt thick with more than just monsoon residue on Saturday, as Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition, dramatically reached into the past and pulled out a five-year-old medical file. With the flourish of a man who believes he has finally caught his adversary in a lie, he waved a report from Kolkata’s Bangur Institute of Neurosciences, dated March 11, 2021. The verdict, he claimed, was simple: no fracture, no dislocation, no evidence of the broken leg that Mamata Banerjee had once used to fuel a narrative of martyrdom. He stood…

In the last few days, a disturbing and deeply unsettling video has been circulating across social media, reportedly created using artificial intelligence and featuring actress Janhvi Kapoor alongside actor NTR in a fabricated and degrading scenario. The clip, despite being a form of deepfake or at least heavily manipulated content, traveled quickly across platforms, as such content always tends to do. It was shared, commented on, and dissected by thousands of people, many of whom perhaps did not pause to think about the real human being at the center of it. NTR soon responded with a clear message: strong legal…