From Olympic “femininity tests” to modern debates over transgender athletes, women’s sport has long been shaped by politics, suspicion and the policing of bodies
Lalita Iyer
About The Author
Lalita Iyer is an Associate Editor at Outlook and the author of Aging (Un)Gracefully, The Whole Shebang, Raising Mamma and other books.
About The Author
Lalita Iyer is an Associate Editor at Outlook and the author of Aging (Un)Gracefully, The Whole Shebang, Raising Mamma and other books.
How a transport company became an accidental legend of 70s Bollywood.
BY Lalita Iyer 14 March 2026
For many professionals, the blurred boundary between home and office has created a new culture of low-grade burnout.
BY Lalita Iyer 13 March 2026
After grand gestures and endless conflict in romance, a new wave of shows and movies unravels love that survives the ordinary.
BY Lalita Iyer 9 March 2026
How Indian advertising’s stories of harmony are navigating outrage, optics and the bottom line.
BY Lalita Iyer 4 March 2026
In crimes against women, justice is shaped not only in courtrooms but in newsrooms where narrative determines whose suffering becomes national conscience and whose fades into procedural silence
BY Lalita Iyer 2 March 2026
Long before typing bubbles and blue ticks got our hearts racing, Hindi cinema understood that romance needed distance, and a handwritten letter to bridge it.
BY Lalita Iyer 28 February 2026
As the Epstein files resurface, are we seeking justice or feeding a system that turns suffering into spectacle?
BY Lalita Iyer 20 February 2026
In Love, Sex and India, Paromita Vohra gathers a decade of voices from Agents of Ishq to map the unruly, heterogenous landscape of Indian desire.
BY Lalita Iyer 15 February 2026
This Valentine’s Day, we explore how Bollywood’s longest romance has been with the kiss itself.
BY Lalita Iyer 14 February 2026
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