Chinki Sinha | Author at https://outlookindia.com
A world within a world is running out of time. But the voices of McCluskieganj’s past continue to resonate within its ruins, even as development takes over
Now more than ever, there is a need to reclaim the space available for art to reflect the politics in our lives. The fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale does just that.
Witch hunting is not new to India as the evil persists in all its numbing brutality and scale, with thousands of women being persecuted, tortured and killed over the years
How does one write disaster? How does one turn the shards of memory into text?
Of heartbreaks and situationships. That word looks so emotionally bankrupt. That word called situationship. Be grateful it is a heartbreak. There’s scope for poetry there.
Journalism has to reshape itself in our times and that is just what we plan to do
As a magazine, nothing stops us from being more imaginative, more responsible and more inclusive. It means we no longer want to be restricted by proposed definitions of what a weekly should be. We have decided to call ourselves 'Decazine' and use the 10 days to bring out issues that look at society, culture and politics as parts of a whole story.
How do we negotiate the vagaries, the transformations and the possible death of our feelings?
Aradhana Seth builds magical worlds in her home, shrines with mytho-political Gods and dazzling sets that show an imagination simultaneously global and local
Pan Nalin’s The Last Film Show is a paean to a lost man, a lost moment in film history, and the power of memory
Chinki Sinha on putting this issue of Outlook together and on the defiance of memory and words
In an interview with Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha, Ukrainian poet Boris Dralyuk talks about a poet’s role in a war
What drives people to kill? Is this the province of special people or are we all capable of it?
When one enters the Adivasi world, one lives a different time, a different space, a different vibe
What do we have except our own memories and the memories of those around us to build the herstories of women, to save them from total erasure?
The recently held fashion week in Mumbai had mostly hideous and boring ramp shows barring a few designers like Rajesh Pratap
Ramayana is a story of struggle against society’s imposed morality, of kings and queens who are products of their circumstances and choices
Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha evocatively captures eight gutsy trans women models walking their catwalk on the ramp in the first ever trans fashion show held in Delhi
Bihar Museum’s exhibition, Women and Deities, is a timely feminist intervention to ways of seeing the Hindu religion at a time when India is sinking in revanchism
Feeling offended? Look away. Don’t push your beliefs on the rest of us. In this digital age, truth will out anyway.
The Sanatan Sanstha has been in the dock over the controversial murders of rationalists and in the spotlight for bomb attacks in Maharashtra and Pune. But its national spokesperson, Chetan Rajhans, tells Outlook that the Sanstha has emerged as the new whipping boy for its detractors because it’s still a small organisation and their original target, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is a much more powerful entity now.
Artist Ranjeeta Kumari explores displacement and migration in her work and depicts the loneliness of gender and caste, which stems from her own story of growing up in a Harijan colony in Patna
Unusual bonds, forged out of adversity, grudging accommodation and mutual respect, on the margins of society
Bombay rises from the sea every day, always hungry, forever looking ahead, even as many individual dreams get snuffed out in its maw
Before she sits down on a bench at night and shares a cigarette with two men of African descent, the woman dressed as a goddess had been loitering around in Toronto’s downtown for quite some time.