She turned to Kabir, tears streaming. "Please. Turn it off."
The lights dimmed on the set of India's Got Latent , a new reality show that promised to uncover talents so niche, so bizarre, and so deeply hidden that even the contestants didn't know they had them. Unlike its bombastic cousins, this show had a quiet, unnerving premise: contestants were hooked to a machine called the "Latent Amplifier," which supposedly drew out a person's hidden, often useless, ability. INDIA-S GOT LATENT
The showrunner, watching from the control room, grinned. This wasn't a disaster. This was ratings . He signaled Kabir to continue. She turned to Kabir, tears streaming
She scanned the front row. A young man in a hoodie, scrolling on his phone. Above him: . Three seconds ago. She followed his gaze. He was looking at a video on his phone—a puppy falling into a pool. He chuckled. Unlike its bombastic cousins, this show had a