Outlook's Shahina K.K. is among the four winners of the 2023 CPJ International Press Freedom Award. Currently a senior editor for Outlook magazine, she was one of the country’s first journalists to be charged under the...
To build a father out of the air, much like building much anything else from nothing, especially when the only time you saw him was those two sore years after your birth. You grow up to call anything father, even an old...
Gently gleaning the volume Nairatmya - She Who Has Risen Beyond Self with cover art that resembles a horoscopic depiction, I discover Anand Thakore’s Seven Deaths & Four Scrolls.
Vappala Balachandran's latest book, “Intelligence Over Centuries” is a fascinating tour de horizon of the world’s second-oldest profession.
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s ‘Soft Animal’ is set during the Covid-19 lockdown and appears like a memoir-meets-fiction kind of a work, notes Anjana Basu.
Arun AK writes a short story about a former music star who now leads a solitary life in obscurity. Then one day, he receives an email from a fan after many years.
Inspired by the story: A Timeless Video Loop Of Disaster published in Outlook by Chinki Sinha, the poem is an obituary in memory of the Balasore train accident, to those who couldn't complete the journey. Though the...
Madhopur Ka Ghar is a daringly introspective novel, a work of startling originality and beauty, and reliable and relatable like Rahi Masoom Raza’s classic novel Aadha Gaon.
Ambadas Khobragade was celebrated as one of India’s greatest master abstractionists, known for his Indian modern art. The exhibition presents an opportunity to view a large body of his works.
Recounting her childhood, Shoaib Khan revealed that it was a period marred by the deprivation of love, validation and freedom to express herself authentically.
Poet Kiriti Sengupta discusses with Professor Akshaya Kumar the multiplicity of truth, poetic style, and the Bengali English poetry scene, among other things.
Arun AK writes a short story for Outlook on a pandemic in the future deadlier than Covid-19 — the lack of happiness.
Bantony Castle, the 143-year-old British-era landmark in Shimla, has come alive after its Rs 29-crore restoration. The light and sound show is the major tourist attraction.
Sandeep Jain, who writes under the name Timeless Poetry, writes a poem for Outlook.
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 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.
Artist and puppeteer Sudipta Mukherjee Mandal writes about travelling and a mountain tea shack that she found on a trekking trip.
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...
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....
On the ‘rebel’ poet’s birth anniversary, here’s a story that will take you to his Kolkata home.
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...
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 completeness and incompleteness were taken from the Upanishads.
