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Topic: Anime

Of MAGA and manga—why Japanese fans are angry at Trump

Krishan Murari -
Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video that featured him dressed as Naruto. It’s not the first time he has used AI-generated content to boost his image.

Anime’s desi soul is in small-town India. Nagpur is its capital

+TFP Tina Das -
Japan may be the anime capital of the world, but small cities such as Nagpur, Jaipur, and Bhubaneswar are among its most dedicated Indian outposts.

Chacha Chaudhary, Sabu do surgical strikes, capture terrorist. Indian comics are changing

+TFP Almina Khatoon -
Superheroes receiving new powers and bulky muscles, characters are no longer speaking shuddh Hindi, and comic books have English titles.

Ash Ketchum has finally won a Pokémon League. But he has always been a winner

Shubhangi Misra -
For young kids watching Pokémon, Ash was nothing less than a role model. He cried, threw tantrums, felt dejected and lost a lot. But he stood by his principles, no matter what.

OtakuKart’s new expansion plans into gaming, sports, automobile & much more

Animesh Kumar -
OtakuKart has taken control of Dax Street (an automobile domain), Sports Al Dente (a sports domain) and Mice News (Philippines-based space).

Netflix bets on anime to battle Disney, Apple in streaming wars

Masatsugu Horie -
Netflix is developing a library of exclusive anime shows, clinching long-term partnerships with five of Japan’s notable animation studios.

How an obscure Japanese anime made a genuine attempt to understand Pakistan

Hamza Sarfraz -
Pakistanis feature in global screens largely through the prism of a few limiting themes – terrorism, militancy, backwardness, poverty.

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Opinion

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

Triya Gulati -
It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Apple killed the base iPhone. Its status game is no longer subtle

Mirzapur’s Beena Tripathi is proof — a woman doesn’t need a gun to wield power

Economy

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Faseeh Mangi -
Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

Defence

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

Debdutta Chakraborty -
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

National Interest

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

Shekhar Gupta -
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.

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