With Bangladesh-India relations on the line, is cricket the expected collateral damage or a strategic misfire?
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The candidates alleged their complaints to election authorities went unanswered and that the alleged interference was “solely to benefit his brother, sister-in-law and cousin” and secure political advantage for the BJP by preventing rival candidates from contesting.
The controversy over lighting a deepam near a dargah reveals how law, religion and electoral strategy intersect in contemporary Tamil Nadu.
Growing up in rural Tamil Nadu in the 1980s, I recall how occasional visits to nearby towns left a lasting visual impression—statues and images of leaders shown with a pen in their pocket, a book in hand, or engaged in reading and writing.
Four of the five accused activists who were granted bail by the Supreme Court on January 5, 2026 in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case were released from prison on January 7. While Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider and Shifa Ur Rehman were released from Tihar jail, Mohd. Saleem Khan walked out of Mandoli prison. Families and friends of the released activists were seen celebrating with flowers and sweets on the occasion in front of the prison complex on Wednesday night. The four accused had been incarcerated for nearly six years. The trial in the case registered under FIR 59/2020 is yet to begin.
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We dedicate this issue to those who venture into the elsewhere, to people made of paper and to those who imagine and dismantle entire worlds for the sake of love.
A hidden inner refuge guides us, preserving the clarity and calm the outer world cannot offer.
In Dreams. There is no Alice. There is no Wonderland. There is wonder. And there is arousal. Of the imaginary. A tactility in the text that conveys the illicit and the unmentionable.
Márquez’s Macondo And Gandhi, Still Undeciphered
Despatches from the forgotten village
It is difficult to discern the difference between real space and fictional space. The writer needs the artistic skill to fuse the two.
Amid aggressive public discourse and political pressure, literature survives as a quiet retreat—preserving silenced voices, resisting instant reactions, and allowing writers the freedom to wander, reflect, and reinvent meaning
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
The acts of breathing in and out become compositional devices—intervals through which rhythm and exhaustion surface as material conditions for speaking and being.
Violence is endlessly recyclable. Stop torture. Stop bulldozer injustice. Remember that we live in one world. Remember that the body forgets nothing, nor does the earth.
Some homes break free from the linear passage of time, from codes that perform perfection, from everything that is a supposition or an assumption.
True longing alchemises us. As the experience of incompleteness eats into our innards, it births us, gradually, into a new wholeness. And one day, it would seem, we no longer see any conflict between earth and sky, now and forever. The divide has been healed. We are home. Elsewhere is right here.
A meditation on love, memory and migration, where the search for home becomes less about a place and more about building belonging through care and shared histories.
The piece explores displacement, resistance and the meaning of home beyond walls and land.
An essay tracing lost memories of Bhojpuri women who migrated under indenture from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to Suriname in the 19th century
A hasty, forgetful walk through Osnabrück transforms streets where past and present meet in moments of reflection, and timelessness.
This space which I want to create, unlike that of the real world, has to be open to possibilities, to dialogues, to alternate viewpoints, and defined by an underlying sense of respect.
In the end, a place in a story is true not because it exists on a map, but because it is the only place that specific character could have ever been born in.
To engage with landscape today is to reject superficial beauty and cultivate inner vision — a deliberate peeling back of layers to reveal the stories of struggle embedded within.
Yousuf Saeed examines humanity, control, and hope among the last survivors of a ruined planet.
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What explains the CPI(M)’s soft corner for Vellappally Natesan’s anti-Muslim rhetoric— electoral calculation or ideological drift?
Bangladesh ties with New Delhi have remained strained since prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League regime was ousted following a violent student-led street protest in July-August 2024.
Mumbai Indians take on Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Women’s Premier League 2026 opener on 9 January at Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy. MI are led by Harmanpreet Kaur, while RCB will be captained by Smriti Mandhana
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Across decades, films return to the newsroom to interrogate journalism’s promise and limitations, oscillating between satire, spectacle and documentary realism.
Long before “Slow Cinema” became a curatorial disposition, Tarr had already committed himself to duration as a political and aesthetic position. Across his works, he shaped a cinema of attrition and accumulation.
Few losses in the Indian film industry will remain as irreparable as Khan’s, who is still counted among the most gifted actors across the globe for the conviction with which he embodied each character.
At 65, Supriya Pathak Kapur reflects on a life shaped by artistic curiosity and quiet resilience.
Long before “Slow Cinema” became a curatorial disposition, Tarr had already committed himself to duration as a political and aesthetic position. Across his works, he shaped a cinema of attrition and accumulation.
Few losses in the Indian film industry will remain as irreparable as Khan’s, who is still counted among the most gifted actors across the globe for the conviction with which he embodied each character.
At 65, Supriya Pathak Kapur reflects on a life shaped by artistic curiosity and quiet resilience.
The European Film Academy, of which Béla Tarr had been a member since 1997, said that the filmmaker died "after a long and serious illness."
On his 59th birthday, we look at how Rahman didn't just mobilise music from different parts of the world, but also brought global music production techniques and values to Indian music.
Auditions, voice work, study, reinvention and lived experience—that’s how actors continue to work beyond releases and visibility.
The strategic insertion of the past is no longer incidental in Bollywood films. It has become a deliberate trope in contemporary filmmaking. However, it also exposes a creative fatigue at the industry’s core.
Marking a significant milestone, Deepika Padukone celebrated her 40th birthday on January 5, 2026.
Film music from the 70s can be characterised through Burman’s perennially popular upbeat tunes that have outlived the films. However, seldom mentioned are his compositions that are soft, reflective and thoughtful, etched in film history just as permanently.
Once a thriving parallel industry, Bollywood’s lookalikes have gone from single-screen staples to social media sensations
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
The Housemaid (2025) offers a guilty pleasure with its unhinged narrative turns—delivering a sense of mischievous satisfaction that is hard to resist.
Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar's film creates a surreal, dream-like world to explore identity and the courage required to accept oneself and others.
Kochi Biennale Temporarily Halts Tom Vattakuzhy’s Supper at a Nunnery Following Catholic Church Protest
Overall, ‘Ikkis’ proves to be a fantastic palate cleanser to the nationalistic drama genre, balancing the appetite for action with the very real human costs of war.
The defining mood of films and shows in 2025 wasn’t hope or despair, but emotional untidiness.
Outlook's Picks 2025: Five Indian films that mattered more than box office—from Lokah's superhero revolution to Bad Girl's honest coming-of-age. Discover the year's most powerful, provocative, and heartfelt cinema.
For Sen, cinema could never be alienated from the society it claimed to mirror.
Drawing on personal history and the turbulent political landscape of Assam and the Northeast, Dhiraj Rabha creates layered installations that challenge official narratives and expose the power structures that underpin them.
India, Russia and Maduro: How the US Uses Energy to Shape Global Politics
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