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Heterotopia

Heterotopia

Mar 22, 2023

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

Bulwark Against Despair

Bulwark Against Despair

Mar 10, 2023

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.

War Against Women

War Against Women

Feb 26, 2023

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

Writing Disaster

Writing Disaster

Feb 18, 2023

How does one write disaster? How does one turn the shards of memory into text?

Heartbreak vs Situationship

Heartbreak vs Situationship

Feb 14, 2023

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. 

The Decazine

The Decazine

Feb 10, 2023

Journalism has to reshape itself in our times and that is just what we plan to do

The Decazine

The Decazine

Feb 09, 2023

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. 

There Is A Connection Between Touch And Loneliness, And The Feelings They Generate

There Is A Connection Between Touch And Loneliness, And The Feelings They Generate

Jan 12, 2023

How do we negotiate the vagaries, the transformations and the possible death of our feelings?

Weaving Magical Worlds Through Imagination

Weaving Magical Worlds Through Imagination

Dec 30, 2022

Aradhana Seth builds magical worlds in her home, shrines with mytho-political Gods and dazzling sets that show an imagination simultaneously global and local

'The Last Film Show': A Film That Celebrates Life Of A Projectionist

'The Last Film Show': A Film That Celebrates Life Of A Projectionist

Dec 30, 2022

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

The Incandescence Of Memory

The Incandescence Of Memory

Dec 30, 2022

Chinki Sinha on putting this issue of Outlook together and on the defiance of memory and words

Poetry Awakens Us To All That Makes Us Human: Ukrainian Poet Boris Dralyuk

Poetry Awakens Us To All That Makes Us Human: Ukrainian Poet Boris Dralyuk

Dec 15, 2022

In an interview with Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha, Ukrainian poet Boris Dralyuk talks about a poet’s role in a war

What Makes People Kill? A Peek Inside The Minds Of Killers

What Makes People Kill? A Peek Inside The Minds Of Killers

Dec 09, 2022

What drives people to kill? Is this the province of special people or are we all capable of it?

The Adivasi World: One With The Earth

The Adivasi World: One With The Earth

Nov 24, 2022

When one enters the Adivasi world, one lives a different time, a different space, a different vibe

Memories And Herstories

Memories And Herstories

Oct 28, 2022

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?

FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week Show Had Little Substance

FDCI x Lakmé Fashion Week Show Had Little Substance

Oct 20, 2022

The recently held fashion week in Mumbai had mostly hideous and boring ramp shows barring a few designers like Rajesh Pratap

Ramayan: Who Is Ram And What Is His Story?

Ramayan: Who Is Ram And What Is His Story?

Sep 29, 2022

Ramayana is a story of struggle against society’s imposed morality, of kings and queens who are products of their circumstances and choices

Trans Persons: Making The Invisible Visible

Trans Persons: Making The Invisible Visible

Oct 13, 2022

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

Feminist, Feminine And Everything In Between At Bihar Museum's Exhibition 'Women and Deities'

Feminist, Feminine And Everything In Between At Bihar Museum's Exhibition 'Women and Deities'

Sep 01, 2022

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

Attack On Salman Rushdie: Can We Agree To Disagree And Reserve Our Right To Question?

Attack On Salman Rushdie: Can We Agree To Disagree And Reserve Our Right To Question?

Aug 25, 2022

Feeling offended? Look away. Don’t push your beliefs on the rest of us. In this digital age, truth will out anyway.

We Are The Whipping Boys Now: Sanatan Sanstha National Spokesperson Chetan Rajhans

We Are The Whipping Boys Now: Sanatan Sanstha National Spokesperson Chetan Rajhans

Jun 08, 2022

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.

We The People: Discrimination Can Be A Lonely Battle, Says Bihar Artist

We The People: Discrimination Can Be A Lonely Battle, Says Bihar Artist

Aug 11, 2022

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

Friendship Day: Friendships Between A Reporter And Her Subjects That Refuses To End

Friendship Day: Friendships Between A Reporter And Her Subjects That Refuses To End

Jul 28, 2022

Unusual bonds, forged out of adversity, grudging accommodation and mutual respect, on the margins of society

Mumbai: The City That Resurrects Itself

Mumbai: The City That Resurrects Itself

Jul 21, 2022

Bombay rises from the sea every day, always hungry, forever looking ahead, even as many individual dreams get snuffed out in its maw

I Understand Kali As My Denied Existence: Leena Manimekalai

I Understand Kali As My Denied Existence: Leena Manimekalai

Jul 14, 2022

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.

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