The extreme torture in Netflix’s Ghoul is not merely a dystopian fantasy, nor is it reserved exclusively for “certified terrorists”. Today, activists have been picked up from their homes in Goa and Delhi, but it’s been standard practice in parts of India that we leave out of our mental map of progress.

There’s a new stock character type in Bollywood, and she is the token feminist. Always powerful, headstrong, and argumentative, you’ll see her in everything from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil to Sacred Games. She’s the effeminate gay man of this decade.