Speaking along the concept of beauty, which demands to be seen through a binary gender lens in the fashion industry, transmodels in Delhi highlight that there is immense pressure for a transperson to 'ultimately look like a...
A panel discussion about the need for the legalisation of same-sex marriages has highlighted the lack of awareness prevailing in Indian society about accepting queer people and the necessity to start having a dialogue with...
On the ‘rebel’ poet’s birth anniversary, here’s a story that will take you to his Kolkata home.
A viral Starbucks advertisement shows the rekindling of a daughter - a transgender woman - with her parents as they accept her new identity. However, a lot of people have criticised the company for indulging in tokenism.
Retired Justice M.R. Shah’s unwavering belief in the theory of deterrence and advocating stricter laws for serious offenders has somehow shaped the perception of him being a pro-executive judge amongst members of the bar....
Muhammad Ashraf Wani and Aman Ashraf Wani, the two authors, have truly succeeded in writing the first longue durée history on ancient Kashmir, casting a scholarly light on the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic...
Artist and puppeteer Sudipta Mukherjee Mandal writes about travelling and a mountain tea shack that she found on a trekking trip.
A historic artform tracing its descent from the Mughal era, zari-zardozi has for long served as a livelihood to a majority of the Muslim population in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. However, for the past few years,...
The book was originally a long poem which then became a novel and shards of poetry linger from the original text while the book’s philosophies of...
The Centre is located at the old building of the Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Srinagar (IMHNS), previously called the Psychiatric Disease...
Does this violate the woman’s right to privacy? Did she consent to reveal her marital status on sundry official documents and in official communication while...
Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Afwaah’ touches upon the themes of ‘love jihad’, viral videos, rumour-mongering, fake news, trigger-happy cops, among others, but...
Tagore’s thinking undoubtedly was way ahead of his time. His contribution to literature is incomparable- perhaps for the first time the rest of the world was...
Simra Sadaf writes a short story for Outlook.
Writer and activist Tenzin Tsundue says Tibetans have been uprooted from their homeland, but they are unable to settle down in a foreign land.
Kanishk Devgan writes about once being an NRI, visits to India during holidays, and Indian food.
California-based academic and novelist Simrita Dhir writes three poems for Outlook.
In ‘The Mendicant Prince’ on the Prince of Bhawal, Aruna Chakravarti cites various instances as to why the sanyasi was most certainly the prince, including...
Nikhilesh Mishra has translated six Odia poems by Sakti Mohanty into English.
While for male leaders, celibacy can be a fetish, for women, it is perhaps a necessity
Manjeet Sarkar is one of India's few Dalit stand-up comedians. He is currently on his second India tour, titled 'Untouchable'.
The notion that recognising same-sex marriage will ‘ruin’ Indian culture is a narrow interpretation of a complex and dynamic cultural entity. Culture is...
