From global TikTok crazes to India’s ingenious dupe culture, consumerism became performance art: fast, flashy and fleeting, leaving every market, street and café touched by the mania.
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CPI(M)’s push, led by the Kerala CM, turns a local demolition into a broader political reckoning
In 2025, violence, disaster, and political tension tested India’s institutions and democracy. Through on-ground reporting and human narratives, Outlook chronicled national tragedies and global echoes of dissent, examining accountability, resilience, and the human cost behind the headlines.
Imagined places are not escapes from reality, they are responses to it. Every imagined space carries politics — a fictional town, a remembered village, a speculative future — each shaped by power, and by what power erases.
‘Imagined spaces’ was also the leitmotif and the central theme of our January 1, 2024 issue on Virtual Production in cinema
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The government is presenting it as a long-overdue initiative in the direction of tribal self-governance.
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Women have always lived on the margins of power. Yet history shows that change begins precisely from those edges. This is a story about claiming space in a newsroom shaped by men, about refusing inherited hierarchies and the price of insisting on being visible, uninterrupted
Thirty years ago, Outlook set out to ask uncomfortable questions and tell stories others would not. This piece traces a turbulent journey, from near collapse to cautious renewal
Communalism in India is neither an aberration nor a recent invention. Yet, over the last three decades, these latent fissures have acquired a sharp political grammar, transforming faith into an organising principle of power. This special package looks back at key moments, forgotten reportage and defining debates that mapped this transformation.
Through its archives, reportage and covers over three decades, Outlook traces this journey of othering, charting how fear, faith and politics converged to redraw the boundaries of citizenship, and asking whether this tide has reached its peak or is still rising
Unpacking uneasy truths with clarity and uncompromising journalism.
From Nehru to Narendra Modi, Outlook has profiled the people who shaped key political and cultural moments in Indian history
Outlook magazine was founded with the idea that journalism as a public record mattered. Over the years, the investigations the magazine has carried out have changed the face of India.
For decades, Outlook has borne witness to India’s darkest moments, crimes that shattered lives, exposed power and prejudice, and tested the nation’s conscience. From Delhi to Kathua, Mumbai to Kolkata, these stories are not just records of violence, but acts of remembrance and resistance.
Across borders and decades, Outlook has documented conflict not from war rooms but from ruined homes, silenced streets, and surviving voices, because war is never distant, never abstract, and never someone else’s tragedy
Three decades of recurring attacks, delayed justice, and civilians paying the price remind India that the shadow of violence still lingers.
In its 30-years, Outlook magazine has chronicled India's life, culture, and pivotal social moments.
Crime against women has continued, their political representation is still low and their participation in the workforce is yet to be recognised.
For Outlook, telling stories of the oppressed and bring to the readers the most inhuman have always been a very important area to cover.
In its 30 years, Outlook magazine has always found itself telling the stories that those in power didn't want told and amplifying the voices of underdogs
The fate of the planet hinges on the course human activities will take. Will the future end in flood and fury? Or will humans evolve a new way of life to save us from ourselves?
How faith, power, and spectacle converged as Ayodhya transformed into a symbol of cultural assertion and political ambition.
Magazines survived, not by racing against the times, but by refusing to be rushed by them. This special issue marking 30 years of Outlook is proof that the form endures, not merely as a container of news, but as an experience in itself.
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Informal caste councils in northern India continue to impose patriarchal control, issuing threats, bans and lethal diktats that undermine women’s rights and personal freedoms.
As New Delhi and Beijing revive dialogue and reject third-party mediation, Washington’s strategic assumptions in Asia face a challenge
From Jemimah Rodrigues' emotional reaction after essaying an era-defining knock to Magnus Carlsen's unexpected praise of D Gukesh, presenting some of the most memorable quotes from sportspersons in the year gone by
Rajesh Khanna’s downfall was as dramatic as his rise to the top. Perhaps he was a victim of his own image or was carried away by all the adulation. Whatever the reason, he was dethroned before he was ready to abdicate.
Shaikh may not have been in any rush to make a career in the movies, but his roles made a mark on generations to come.
In the Khan-trio, Salman’s superstardom has frayed the most.
Wright delivers a film that functions efficiently as studio entertainment, while sidestepping the discomfort that once made King’s story sting. For a story about running for one’s life, it rarely feels like it’s risking anything at all.
Shaikh may not have been in any rush to make a career in the movies, but his roles made a mark on generations to come.
In the Khan-trio, Salman’s superstardom has frayed the most.
Wright delivers a film that functions efficiently as studio entertainment, while sidestepping the discomfort that once made King’s story sting. For a story about running for one’s life, it rarely feels like it’s risking anything at all.
Paula Beer’s soft, unforced presence effortlessly fits into the German auteur’s latest.
Legendary actor and director Mohammad Bakri passed away on Wednesday at the age of 72, according to his family. He had been suffering from heart problems.
The exclusion of six films from IFFK has triggered an uneasy debate about censorship, compliance, and what an international film festival owes its audience.
Beyond mainstream year-enders: Outlook's Picks 2025 spotlights provocative festival films from Berlin to Cannes that pushed cinema's boundaries. Discover the bold, daring works that redefined storytelling and impressed global juries.
The film is admirably sturdy, even if it is familiar in its preoccupation with grief and mortality, for it is elevated by a cast that really brings the best out of each other.
In a vitiated landscape, the finest of Indian independent cinema asks us to slow down, muse and provoke.
Comeback is the flavour of the season. Akshaye Khanna's character in 'Dhurandhar' is the mood, the talk and the deal on social media much like Bobby Deol in 'Animal'. What connects them?
Achal Mishra's latest isn’t meditative because of the aesthetically pleasing chiaroscuro; it is the way the greatness of Vinod Kumar Shukla’s fleeting musings drift through the ordinariness of his lifestyle that draws you into the film.
Whether one prefers the bittersweet ache of a delicate romance or the absurdity of holiday misadventures, here are Outlook’s picks for ten must-watch Christmas films (listed without ranking), that need to be on your watchlist this year.
The IFFK programme, true to form, remained vast and unapologetically sprawling, with Indian films jostling against weighty retrospectives, restored classics, and a relentless stream of international festival favourites.
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.
Artist Mukesh Sharma finds inspiration from the afterlife of digital gadgets. Think discarded keyboards, phones and tablets. The results are incredibly striking
From Rose Byrne to Teyana Taylor, the year’s defining performances from Hollywood and beyond left an unforgettable blaze
The missing women trope in Indian crime drama could, in theory, foreground structural injustices and institutional complicity. But in practice, these stories repeatedly retreat into the comfort of the simpler police procedurals.
The sidekick was street-smart, self-aware, irreverent. The hero might have carried the plot forward, but it was the sidekick who kept the film human.
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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.
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New Year’s Eve 2025: Mumbai’s Best Places To Ring In The Year
In Delhi, there’s always a brand new restaurant or a bougie bar taking over everyone's weekend plans. Here's a list of the city's newest openings that are doing that before we bid goodbye to 2025. And... you don't want to miss out on them!
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The luxury home living brand has come up with a 18,000 sqft flagship store at MG Road bringing its design-forward approach to furniture and collectibles
