As Budget 2026 approaches, gig workers across India are calling for constitutional guarantees, fair wages, social security, and recognition of cities as workplaces amid falling incomes, long hours, and growing algorithmic control by platforms.
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Even as Indian women continue to shape sports, arts, health, and education, national recognition remains overwhelmingly male, with just one female awardee for every seven men this year.
Labour minister, after meeting with quick commerce platforms, has asked them to scrap promises like ‘10-minute deliveries’.
Outlook found online medicine apps are dispensing painkillers, antibiotics, and antidepressants without proper prescriptions or checks, raising the risk of drug abuse and antimicrobial resistance.
Nationwide protests grip the country as economic collapse, strict religious rules, and international tensions fuel public anger.
Outlook’s January issue explores how writers like Gitanjali Shree, Perumal Murugan, and Annie Zaidi use imagined worlds as tools of resistance against censorship, oppression, and shrinking freedoms.
Ditch the apps, grab a pen, and let your brain do a little happy dance—because 2026 deserves notebooks, not notifications
Lakhs of Zomato, Swiggy, Instamart, and Zepto riders join nationwide strike demanding fair pay, improved working conditions, and ban on ten-minute deliveries.
The year our language went viral, where words showcased growing AI anxieties and social media clamour
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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