Mumbai Cyborgs in Literature and Cinema

This paper explores how cyborgs have been represented in the domains of literature and cinema, providing a reflection on the process of posthumanization. As the boundaries between humanity and technology blurs with each passing day, it becomes important to question the defining criteria to be considered a human. Through encountering androids in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), the robot in Runaround by Issac Asimov, The Fourth Discontinuity by Bruce Mazlish (1993) and films like Matrix (1999) the reader will catch a glimpse of the changing relationship between humanity and technology. Change is inevitable. We're already cyborgs now.