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Old Moon Revolution Artwork by Ruchi Bakshi Sharma : A performer can take hours to move an imaginary mountain on stage; can show how a river originates atop some far mountain, then widens in grith as it comes toward you, then thins as it travels off into the distance.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Eyes That Build Worlds

BY Tishani Doshi

Amitava Kumar Talks About Trains

Video Podcast | Amitava Kumar On Indian Trains, Writing & Memory | Our Lovely Friends

BY Chinki Sinha

Dreaming a Paradise | Chitvan Gill | Seagull Books | 186 pages | Rs 599

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Dreaming A Paradise

BY Chitvan Gill

Is She at Home? Artworkk by Aradhana Seth

Because We Live In This World And No Other

Vikram Sharma : Amitava Kumar

Culture & Society

“You Are Not A Writer If You don’t Carry A Notebook”

BY Chinki Sinha

| Illustration: Vikas Thakur : Casa Museo: At Gabriel García Márquez’s birthplace—Aracataca in Colombia

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Márquez’s Macondo And Gandhi, Still Undeciphered

BY Ruchira Gupta

My Dear Kabul | Afghan Women’s Writing Group | Coronet/Hodder | 384 pages | 2024

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Excerpt From Lucy Hannah's 'My Dear Kabul'

BY Afghan Women’s Writing Group

| Courtesy: Sakshi Gallery : Trembling at the Edge of Sight Untitled artwork by Sujith S.N.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Visualising Fictional Landscapes

BY Premjish Achari

Courtesy: Shrine Empire Gallery : Finn, The Human Artwork by Paribartana Mohanty

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Excerpt from Durs Grünbein's 'Porcelain'

BY Durs Grünbein

Photo: Naveen Kishore

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Notes From An imaginary Notebook

BY Naveen Kishore

| Courtesy: Gallery ske : At Rest Untitled artwork from Sudarshan Shetty’s Paper Moon series

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Our Unseen Sanctuary, Finding Calm Within Chaos

Artwork installation: Sudarshan Shetty

Elsewhere: How Imagined Worlds Become Sites Of Resistance, Memory And Hope

BY Chinki Sinha

| Courtesy: Champatree Art Gallery : The Silent Landscape Artwork by Abhijit Saikia

Beyond Plot: Why Great Reading And Great Fiction Begins With How And Where

BY Sundar Sarukkai

| Photo: Aradhana Seth : Lovers. Across the Seas

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Seduction Of Elsewhere

BY Arundhathi Subramaniam

Stills from the latest film, A Breath Held Long, By Sudarshan Shetty : He walked in the rain with an excuse of a lost umbrella that he once borrowed from his mother as the raindrops poured down his cheeks like exaggerated salty sorrow that slowly pooled in his pockets submerging the cashless leather wallet that made him happy to imagine he was losing a lifetime of fortune to a grand deluge

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Holding Breath In A City That Never Pauses

BY Sudarshan Shetty

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From Persistence to Permanence: Reviewing 'The Indian University'

BY Swathi Priya

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'The Eleventh Hour' Book Review: It Is Almost Ten-Thirty

BY Sudhirendar Sharma

IMAGO / Hindustan Times : Book lovers at a fair picking their next reads

A New Year of Reading: A List Of Books To Look Forward To In 2026

BY Vineetha Mokkil

| Photo: ANI : Vinod Kumar Shukla

Vinod Kumar Shukla: The Creator of Raghuvar Prasad And The World Of Sonsi

BY Pravin Kumar

Lal moves fluently between traditions, geographies, and periods, offering close readings of texts and performances alongside broader reflections on theatrical practice.

Remembering, Recording, Rethinking Theatre

The Caste Con Census by Anand Teltumbde Cover

The Caste Con Census: Why Counting Caste May Wound More Than It Heals

BY Sahil Hussain Choudhury

Walking Out, Speaking Up: Feminist Street Theatre in India
Deepti Priya Mehrotra

'Walking Out, Speaking Up' Book Review: The Unscripted Revolution

They Gather Around Me, The Animals

Politics And Poetry: 'They Gather Around Me, The Animals'

BY Aranya Padil

Penguin : Cover of The Court of The Dead by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro

Mythical Migrant Misfits: Review Of Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro's Court Of The Dead

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Book Review: Katie Kitamura’s Audition Blurs Reality, Identity, And Desire

BY Debanjan Dhar

Leftword Publishing : Twenty-five years in, Leftword publishing continues printed dissent

Publishing Left in Right Wing India

Hachette India
: The Langurs, by Anuradha Roy, from 'Called by the Hills'.

Lovesong And Lament: A Review Of Anuradha Roy's Called By the Hills

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Aleph :
The novel begins on a note of restlessness where the writer deliberately carves a distinct image of John K. and Asghar based on class.

All The World Is A Stage

Cover of Clamour for a Handful of Rice by Sonnet Mondal

Witnessing In The Grain: The Urgency Of 'Clamour For A Handful Of Rice'

BY Sarita Jenamani

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A Tale of Migrant Childhoods from Tamil Nadu to Malaya | Excerpt from Crossings

BY Sunil Amrith

Cover of 'Cinema and the Indian National Emergency'

Cinema And The Emergency: What A New Book Reveals About Censorship, Propaganda and Resistance

BY Dr. Aftab Husain

Cover of 'Shreeti - A Light That Still Shines' by Shyamlal Yadav

Book Review: When Grief Becomes Hope, A Father Remembers

BY Shillpi A Singh

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