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I knew that the National Human Rights Commission had noted thirty-one cases of fake encounter killings in Maharashtra alone in the previous five years.

Book Excerpt: Colours Of The Cage: A Prison Memoir, By Arun Ferreira

BY Outlook News Desk

‘Unsilenced: The Jail Diary of an Activist’ by Seema Azad

Book Excerpt|Unsilenced: The Jail Diary Of An Activist, By Seema Azad

Illustration: Saahil

Think Ink: Lit Fests In The Time Of AI

BY Vineetha Mokkil

Kerala’s literature festivals

Culture & Society

Culture, commerce, And The Rise Of Kerala’s Literature Festivals

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Aadil Pandit is a human rights lawyer

Voices from Prison

UAPA In J&K: ‘Prolonged Detention And Delayed Trials Make Process The Punishment’

Illustration: Saahil : Is there no freedom and justice for the political prisoners?

Kobad Ghandy’s ‘Fractured Freedom’

BY Kobad Ghandy

(UGC via AP) : REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE: In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media shows protesters dancing and cheering around a bonfire as they take to the streets despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.

Trump Warns Iran As Reports Emerge Of Rising Death Toll From Protest Crackdown

BY Outlook News Desk

MGNREGA: When Certainty Disappears, Do Women Lose First?

MGNREGA Change: When Certainty Disappears, Do Women Lose First?

| Photo: Tribhuvan Tiwari/Outlook : Manikarnika Ghat

Benares Demolitions | When Faith Is Rebuilt And Memory Erased

BY Anirban Ghosh

Mukhtar Khan : Jammu and Kashmir: Successive Regimes Have Used Draconian Laws as a Political Tool

Voices From Prison

How UAPA Law Has Been Used As A Political Tool By Successive Regimes In Jammu And Kashmir

BY Ishfaq Naseem

| Photo Courtesy: Pat verbruggen & Chemould Prescott Road : For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit Artwork by Shilpa Gupta

Voices From Prison

The Sting Of The Bar

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Pinarayi Vijayan with Vellappally Natesan

CPI(M) Fuels Natesan’s Communal Rhetoric: Polarisation Danger Ahead of Kerala Polls

BY Ashlin Mathew

Sandipan Chatterjee : Exide Kolkata Literary Meet: Banu Mushtaq and Chinki Sinha talk about women breaking barriers in writing and how men write women and how women write women and men.

Exide Kolkata Literary Meet: Feminism, the Banu Mushtaq Way

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Outlook Team : Different Strokes: Why has Umar Khalid become the poster-boy of the liberal world while Sharjeel Imam stands alienated from it?

Voices From Prison

Voices From Prison: The Hypocrisy Of Liberals And The 'Good Muslim Bad Muslim' Narrative

BY Saiyyad Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha

|Outlook Photo : My Story Is A Reminder Of The Steep Price Of Portraying Truth

VOICES FROM PRISON

Voices From Prison: When Opinion Becomes A Threat, Says Journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhemcha

BY Kishorchandra Wangkhemcha

SURESH K PANDEY : Yamuna riverbank littered

We Must Not Choose Between "Caste" And "Civic sense”

BY Ravinder Kumar

Stopping the Press: Journalist Prabhat Singh used to report on police brutality in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. He was picked up on March 21, 2016. He was granted bail three months later, after a lot of pressure from international human rights organisations

Voices From Prison

Voices From Prison: My Story Is A Reminder Of The Steep Price Of Portraying Truth, Says Prabhat Singh

BY Prabhat Singh

Outlook Team : Rupesh Kumar Singh is a journalist, currently an undertrial prisoner in Adarsh Central Jail, Beur, Patna.

Voices From Prison

Voices From Prison: My Crime Was Standing With The Adivasis, Says Journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh

BY Rupesh Kumar Singh

Tribhuvan Tiwari : Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge at the national workers' convention

Idea Is To Dilute The Constitution: Rahul Gandhi On BJP's Move To Replace MGNREGA

IMAGO / NurPhoto : European countries collectively hold trillions of dollars in US bonds and equities, much of it through public-sector pension funds, sovereign vehicles and central banks.

Europe’s Real Weapon Against Washington Isn’t Diplomacy. It’s US Assets

BY Jinit Parmar

IMAGO / Hindustan Times : Human rights activists carried protests after Stan Swamy died in Jail as undertrial political prisoner

VOICES FROM PRISON

Lives Lost: How Prolonged Incarceration Failed Pandu Narote, Kanchan Nanaware, Stan Swamy

BY Priyanka Tupe

Sandipan Chatterjee : A packed house on the opening day of the Exide Kolkata Literary Meet 2026

Into The World of Words And Ideas: Exide Kolkata Literary Meet Lights Up The City of Joy

BY Outlook News Desk

Shutterstock : Outside fiction, teenage grief rarely announces itself in ways adults recognise.

Why Teenage Grief Remains A Blind Spot In India’s Mental Health Policy

Alex Brandon/ AP : President Donald Trump arrives to speak with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, in Washington.

Trump’s DON-ROE Doctrine And A New Aggressive America

A felicitation for Jaipal Singh in Ranchi as Member of Parliament after first general elections of 1951-52.

The Inimitable Legacy Of Jaipal Singh Munda

Voices From Prison

He Has Been Arrested For Political Reasons: Gitanjali Angmo On Husband Sonam Wangchuk's Imprisonment

BY Gitanjali Angmo

Demand For Jammu Statehood Gains Momentum, Leaves Parties Divided

Demand For Jammu Statehood Gains Momentum, Leaves Parties Divided

BY Ishfaq Naseem

Vadhvan Bandar Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti : Around 25,000 citizens protested against Vadhvan port and other development projects proposed in Palghar.

Thousands Take To Streets in Palghar to Oppose Maharashtra’s Vadhvan Port

BY Priyanka Tupe

AR Rahman Row: A Confident Nation Can Listen To Its Poets And Musicians

BY Manoj Kumar Jha

PTI : The singularity of BJD leadership renders the party politically transient.

Why The BJD Must Fall To Defend Democracy And Resist Hindutva In Odisha

BY Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Dinesh Parab : Hany Babu

Voices From Prison

Me Coming Out Alive Is A Miracle: Hany Babu, Bhima-Koregaon Accused, On Life Behind Bars

BY Hany Babu M.T.

Vikram Sharma : Rona Wilson

Voices From Prison

Correctional Facility Or The World Of Endless Repetition, Solitude and Boredom?

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