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Topic: HBO

Game of Thrones’ vanishing coffee cup is more than just an amusing HBO glitch

The internet has been having fun with the Game of Thrones blooper since its discovery. But the real point here is that HBO changed the scene thereafter.

Game of Thrones: This is why HBO thinks ‘piracy is better than an Emmy’

HBO was the indisputable ruler of television for two decades, but online streaming platforms like Netflix are now changing the rules of the game.

A happy ending for ‘Game of Thrones’? No thanks

'Game of Thrones' has abandoned the typical plot and fed viewers a relentless diet of cruel and brutal injustices.

Michael Jackson wanted people, and the young boys, to believe he was the victim

Accounts of Jackson's sexual abuse of boys in HBO's documentary 'Leaving Neverland' is not news. But it shows that our culture tacitly decided to pretend Jackson might just be weird, not alarming.

New documentary puts spotlight back on Michael Jackson’s alleged sexual crimes

The documentary 'Leaving Neverland' has been called so sexually explicit that counselors were in the lobby of the film festival where it was screened. 

Netflix is to blame for spoiling viewers rotten

Netflix has accustomed viewers to the idea of an unlimited assortment of TV shows and movies at lesser prices and no ads.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?