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Anand Teltumbde’s deeply researched book challenges the popular belief that a caste census will advance justice, arguing instead that enumeration can entrench caste consciousness and shrink the terrain of real equality.
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From Nehru to Narendra Modi, Outlook has profiled the people who shaped key political and cultural moments in Indian history
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From coastal towns to hill districts, long-held political certainties loosened as the UDF made decisive gains across local bodies, taking over Left strongholds and redrawing the region’s electoral map. The 2025 local body elections marked more than a routine verdict. They revealed a shift in mood
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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
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.
From Nehru to Narendra Modi, Outlook has profiled the people who shaped key political and cultural moments in Indian history
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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The VB-G RAM G Bill was cleared amid strong opposition protests, with allegations that Mahatma Gandhi’s name was removed and the financial burden shifted to states.
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Bangladeshi authorities have since deployed additional security forces in the area to prevent further unrest and ensure the safety of diplomatic staff and nearby residents.
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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.
Here are Outlook’s picks for seven of the year’s strongest OTT shows (listed without ranking), each that made its presence memorable:
Enchantment of a world anew has faded from the blockbuster franchise
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.
Here are Outlook’s picks for seven of the year’s strongest OTT shows (listed without ranking), each that made its presence memorable:
Enchantment of a world anew has faded from the blockbuster franchise
If there was an award for the nicest, least terrifying serial killer, then Mrs Deshpande would win it hands down and this is sincerely meant in a derogatory sense.
The film delivers a searing meditation on the cost exacted by unbridled power and entitlement, drawn with uncanny precision from the textures of real life. Trehan once again asserts that his storytelling demands attention, refusing to dilute his politics into a neat, palatable “Netflix formula.”
The challenge before Hindi cinema is no longer commercial viability but imaginative courage. Spy films that once relied on complex narratives, moral ambiguity, and high stakes are now using those same tools to increasingly pander to specific demographics, often pitting them against one another.
From Adolescence to Andor, the year’s greatest television took the zeitgeist heads-on.
Artists across India are reclaiming visual culture as a political force as the communist movement marks one hundred years.
This eight-episode series on Sony Liv straddles supposedly incompatible thoughts—Kashmir as part of India and Kashmir as a land belonging to its own people—with an understated poise.
The Korean master’s latest recognizes fears and anxieties in today’s economy but increasingly grows wayward
“Enjoy it on surface level first and then go deeper,” is the philosophy Chaar Diwaari carries about his music and it’s this unpretentious charm that has led his work to garner a global appeal.
The vision Indian People’s Theatre Association offered to Indian cinema continues to remain timeless—a commitment to art that invigorates citizens towards social betterment.
At a time when the country is choking on polluted air, unsafe water, a cost-of-living crisis, gendered violence, caste discrimination, and countless unresolved failures, it is stunning how the parameter of “love for the nation” is rerouted towards conveniently manufactured communal provocations.
But can their humble endeavours counter the narrative that the multi-crore Bollywood productions and the 24-hour news channels churn out?
Kerala Actor Assault Case: The survivor spoke after Dileep's acquittal in the 2017 case. She said not every citizen in this country is treated equally before the law.
Shailendra's lyrics exhibit the ability to stretch from the reflective to the hopeful, from the touching to the rallying, all in the width of the same song.
The director talks about cinema as a nourishing expression, ahead of the film’s screening at the 30th IFFK.
Parameswaran's comments are bizarrely ignorant of IFFK's strong history
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Doraiswamy's journey as a teacher is a testament to how an individual can shape institutions for generations of learners
Redefining the Aravalli Hills: Why Economic Development Carries Ecological Risks
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