Chinki Sinha | Author at https://outlookindia.com
Sudarshan Shetty’s immersive art installation Age of Love throws up various theories and queries about love
In a post-apocalyptic world, with a war playing out on our handheld screens and bodies dumped on the streets, with mindless consumption ravaging our planet, the zombies have taken over
All graves are stories and all stories have a context, a site and a landscape.
It has been two years since Lockdown 1.0. As the prime minister urged people to stay home, a lot of emptiness was poured into the streets suddenly. But what about the homeless? Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha recounts the horror
In a state where unemployment is widespread, young men and women are striking gold through content creation
The parallel world of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with its aesthetically-lit windows and luxurious sentimentality that glows in the yellow fairy lights, doesn’t tell the story of the countless other Gangubais.
Why are some statues built and others defaced? Why does no one ever build the statue of a working class man? Why are female statues shaped for the male gaze?
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
My apocalypse came in images—an abandoned horse, a body wrapped in plastic and the story of a professor who was making a curriculum of darkness
Six coal miners were shot dead by security forces in an ambush in Nagaland's Oting on December 4 as they returned from Tiru where they worked. Seven more people were killed and many more got injured in the second round of firing that night.
The protests that have been rocking the Blue Mountains of Nagaland since the December 4 massacre, don't even appear as a dreamscape in the horizon of the putative Indian
The State has repeatedly failed the hard-working and resilient Biharis. The point of this Outlook issue is to look at what makes Bihar so poor. More importantly, what does poverty in the poorest state feel like
In Nagaland's Oting, the graves of the 13 men who were killed on December 4, bear the stories of their lives.
The sky is infinite and there are millions of stars. But, in a city where smog hangs like a veil over us, the stars don’t shine anymore.
In impoverished neighbourhoods across the world are the true heroes, the unsung stars of hip-hop.
Every act of dissent is an art. Of pain and pathos. Of hope and new dawn. It’s their story. It’s everyone’s story.
Motherhood doesn’t require gender, say trans-people awaiting adoption law reforms.
On this cheerful occasion of children's day, let's not miss the opportunity to revisit some characters from our childhood fables.
Follow the diverse celebrations in Bihar where Chhath Puja - a composite culture, a shared festival and faith that is unbound and unshackled - comes to life.
The future of fashion lies in inclusivity, in being a message board for the times, in imperfect solidarities.
Art is a form of thinking. In a world where ‘fake news’ dismantles ‘facts’, art is another way to uphold the storytelling that is journalism’s soul.
Shah Rukh Khan called himself a peddler of love. That’s better than the pitches selling religion. Love is all we need now.
Lahore-based artist Rashid Rana’s 2004 portrait of SRK, made of thousands of photos, was chosen as the Outlook cover for its layered meaning.
The past is a world before the pandemic, a place of happiness perhaps, of love, of togetherness. We want a romanticised past to become our future.
In 2017, I went to Patna to see the goddess. It was a return to a time when we would be up all night to see the festivities. There were all these stories. We heard them again. Over and over again.