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File photo : The book says: "The young people here have been born here or are housed here after witnessing the destruction or occupation of their homes. There are camps like this all over the West Bank."

Our Elsewheres: Beyond The Wall, Writing A Path Through Palestine

Shutterstock : Arial view of empty roads and Mangroves at Charkop sector 8, Mumbai

Development At What Cost? Mumbai’s Mangroves In The Crosshairs

BY Jinit Parmar

Real/Reel: A screen grab from the film Stalker

Art & Entertainment

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Navigating The Nation Factory

BY Ruchir Joshi

Social scientist and welfare economist Jean Drèze

MGNREGA Gave Workers Power, That Is What Is Being Taken Away: Jean Drèze on VB–G RAM G Act

BY Ashlin Mathew

Seagull Books : Alexander Kluge | Air Raid

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from Alexander Kluge's 'Air Raid'

BY Alexander Kluge

Seagull Books : An Old Carriage with Curtains

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from An Old Carriage With Curtains

BY Ghassan Zaqtan

| Photo: Aradhana Seth : Nikhil Chopra

Outlook Anniversary Issue: House Of Shared Contemplations

BY Chinki Sinha

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IMAGO / NurPhoto : Karam Festival In Assam Members of the tea tribe community celebrate the vibrant Karam Festival with traditional rituals at a tea estate in Bokakhat, Assam, India, on September 3, 2025.

We Are Tribals, Not ‘Tea Tribes’: A Struggle For Identity And Rights In Assam

BY Md Asghar Khan

Landscape is Not Always Beautiful: Landscape is an Architecture Artworks from the series by Samit Das

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Known And Unknown Worlds Beyond The Visible

NK Bhoopesh : In Kogilu village, hundreds were pushed into the new year carrying not celebration, but excruciating pain, fear, and a deep sense of hopelessness.

Citizenship Row: Political Crossfire Over Bengaluru Demolition Victims

BY N.K. Bhoopesh

Evan Vucci : President Donald Trump is presented with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize by FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Washington.

Outlook Year-Ender: What The Internet Found Interesting In 2025

AP : Jemimah Rodrigues, centre, reacts after helping India win the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup semi-final against Australia in Navi Mumbai.

Outlook Year-Ender 2025: Women who resisted and broke the mould

BY Priyanka Tupe

A high-wire Act In Germany: Excerpt From Max Frisch| Sketchbook 1946–1949

Our Elsewheres: Excerpt from Max Frisch's 'Sketchbook 1946–1949'

IMAGO/ANI News : The welfare board has been tasked with the responsibility to advise the government on matters of animal welfare, including the framing of laws and also oversee the enforcement of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

J&K LG’s Order To Form Animal Welfare Board Draws Mixed Reactions

BY Ishfaq Naseem

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Well-Kept Ruins | Hélène Cixous | Seagull Books | 156 pages | Rs 699

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Well-Kept Ruins of Memory And Time

BY Hélène Cixous

| Courtesy: Experimenter : The Subterranean II, 2024 Artwork by Julien Segard

Outlook Anniversary Issue: Between Sky Above, Earth Below

BY Perumal Murugan

| Courtesy: Champatree Art Gallery : Blessed Land Artwork by Samir Mohanty

Outlook Anniversary Issue: The Memory Of Fields

BY Janice Pariat

If Malgudi is a motif, rather than ask ‘what is Malgudi’, we may perhaps better understand it as a literary reality and ask ‘how is Malgudi built’.

Outlook Anniversary Issue: How R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Normalises Caste Of Words

BY Antony Arul Valan

PTI : Protest against Anjel Chakma's Killing

Belonging Without Shelter: What Karbi Anglong And Anjel Chakma’s Death Reveal About The Northeast

BY Sangmuan Hangsing

Vikram Sharma : Amitava Kumar

Culture & Society

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

BY Chinki Sinha

Source: IMAGO / NurPhoto : App based food delivery persons from Zomato and Swiggy delivering food in Kolkata, India

Consumers, Riders Say ‘Ban 10-Minute Delivery’ As Gig Workers Go On Strike

BY Anwiti Singh

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IMAGO / ANI News : Chief Minister Omar Abdullah

Power Promise Unmet: J&K Grapples With Outages as Omar Faces Opposition Flak

BY Ishfaq Naseem

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

Taking Phones Away Is Easy, Teaching Kids To Read The World Isn't

Taking Phones Away Is Easy, Teaching Kids To Read The World Isn't

IMAGO / ZUMA Press Wire : Begum Zia presided over a government in the early 1990s that would shape the country’s next three decades.

Bangladesh’s Beacon Of Hope Leaves, But Her Legacy Lives On

BY A K M Wahiduzzaman

IMAGO / NurPhoto : The Politics of Defining Terrorism And Why It Matters

The Politics of Defining Terrorism And Why It Matters

BY Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh

Artwork installation: Sudarshan Shetty

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

BY Chinki Sinha

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| 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

Shreekumar Menon/Facebook : The BEST bus accident in Bhandup claimed four lives and left dozens injured.

Bhandup BEST Bus Accident Kills Four, Raises Questions on Road Safety

BY Priyanka Tupe

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