After treatment ends, residents of a leprosy colony on Mumbai’s edge confront a quieter affliction—abandonment by family, community, and the everyday world they once belonged to.
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Pritha Vashishth is a Mumbai-based journalist who writes about human rights, society, and culture. She is the author of two published poetry collections, Mihir and Mayur Pida. She can be contacted at pritha.vashishth@outlookindia.com.
From January to November 2025, Mumbai police registered 401 cases against suspected illegal immigrants, leading to 1,001 deportations, far surpassing the 158 in 2024 and 61 in 2023.
Parties are going beyond the Marathi Manoos narrative and also trying to woo migrant workers from North India
As fishing community protesters demand ‘end the Hitlership’, authorities evacuate long-term tenants from Sassoon dock with promises of modernity and gentrified markets.
Bihar’s political journey since 1968 has been marked by turmoil, caste conflict and the lasting imprint of its chief ministers
For sixty years, Parsiana has documented the everyday and the extraordinary within the Parsi world — from births and weddings to debates on faith, identity and change. As the magazine prepares to close this month, it leaves behind an unmatched record of a community that has both preserved and transformed its traditions.
At the RSS’s centenary events in Nagpur, Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat and former President Ram Nath Kovind spoke of harmony, inclusion, and social unity. Yet beneath the new language of reform lies an older grammar of hierarchy, as the Sangh’s vision of equality continues to be framed within the bounds of Hindutva.
In Nagpur, Outlook steps inside the Rashtra Sevika Samiti to uncover how women in the RSS are redefining faith, discipline, and nationalism. Through conversations with RSS women leaders and followers of Laxmibai Kelkar, the feature examines the Samiti’s influence within the Sangh Parivar and its vision of womanhood in Hinduism today.
At Rashtra Sevika Samiti shakhas, women are offered empowerment—but only to a certain extent. Their roles remain largely defined: mothers, cultural custodians and loyal citizens
Founded on the same day in 1925 by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the Sangh marked the occasion with its annual gathering at the site of its first shakha (RSS Meeting)
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