Rahi cannot be dismissed outright as he was a literary genius who worked tirelessly to promote the Kashmiri language and shape the identity of Kashmiris. With Rahi, Kashmir became relevant in the existential quest for world...
Sitting in his home on the outskirts of Srinagar’s Mochwa area, Ustad Mohammad Yaqub Sheikh has grown up with Sufi Music and has all along remained with the great Sufi singers of Kashmir in Srinagar’s downtown.
Detail by detail the narrator takes us through his daughter’s school going, the tension of entrance interviews and all the things that anxious parents are aware of. That is when the book comes to life, the love of Oishi...
The real issue is ‘acceptance’. In a society like India, where same-sex relationships are looked down upon, forcing acceptance from the government or the judiciary is of little consequence.
So the poem is still incomplete, though I did add some lines later. It is only February; there may be time yet to complete it by July. Meanwhile, if you miss talking to a friend on a non-friendship day during non-July –...
This was the time when the soon-to-be-famous, Rudyard Kipling came to the ‘summer capital’ of India and its glittering social swirl. Well over a century and a half, after he first put pen to paper, part fiction, part...
A seafood festival and home diners are the newer means adopted by the fisherfolk in the Versova Koliwada, a picturesque fishing village in the northern suburbs of Mumbai to revitalize tourism and attract global tourists.
Canteen was essentially a humble affair. Cafeteria came into the picture when India was forced by circumstances to believe that control economy had not served it well and finally cafes entered the market when 'space'...
The library is an essential part of any educational institution. They are the place for the minds to grow but for a person with disability, they can be a...
The history of international relations suggests that a rising power always challenges the hegemon of the day and the status quo. The United States-China...
The recently released book titled ‘Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye’ by the Infantry veteran from the Rajputana Rifles retired Lieutenant General K.J.S....
It’s the ubiquitous flavour of simplicity and the minimalism of mundane, rural lives that keeps taking Amit Sihag back to the creativity of earthy lives.
The Odisha-based literature festival will see some stalwarts in the field honoured for their body of work and passion for good literature.
Shantashree Mohanty writes about a day in her life as a writer. She receives the advice towards the end of the day that it’s better to be a failing writer...
Poet Vibha Batra writes a poem for Outlook on getting it right in life.
The opening line prepares the plot for the entire book. Who was she? Sriveni, who was once, recognized by her beautifully thick black plait, who was a helping...
Rajiv kept in touch, and sometimes visited Dr. Rozario in retirement at his farm in Fatehpur Beri, outside Delhi. They were always pleased to see each other,...
I am a pitch-dark womb. I shelter God's fetus...standing on my toes. I am a whore: a flung open door through which men come and go pretending innocence.
February, for some a month to celebrate, to love. But February comes to me with some horrors. Three big genocides - Neilly, Godhra and Delhi pogroms happened...
Eventually, my ideas of an all-powerful yet inherently benevolent entity called God turned into the mythical boulder crushing the shape of my Sisyphean mind.
The book takes its title from verses by Qadir Baksh a lesser-known Urdu poet who wrote under the takhallus ‘Sabir’ and who referred to the number of houses...
Shaharyar may have got a short stint in Bollywood which has no match, still a lot of Shaharyar’s work spanning over four decades needs to be portrayed.
Of heartbreaks and situationships. That word looks so emotionally bankrupt. That word called situationship. Be grateful it is a heartbreak. There’s scope for...
