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| Photo: Getty Images : Flashpoint: A memorable moment of the Indo-Pak cricketing rivalry saga. During the 1992 World Cup at Sydney, Pakistan batsman
Javed Miandad mockingly jumped up and down like a kangaroo, imitating Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More’s moves

Beyond The Boundary: Where India And Pakistan Are On The Same Page

BY Arijit Ghosh

| Photo: Getty Images : Strike a Pose: Shubman Gill at the ICC World Test Championship at the Oval on June 4, 2023, in London

Indian Test Cricket 2.0: The Shubman Gill Era

BY Jagdish Yadav

Shutterstock : In India, cricket brings people together but caste decided who gets to go further

Elite Bench, Marginalised Talent: Casteism In Indian Cricket

BY Pragya Singh

Getty Images : English novelist Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth: RIP The Gentleman Spy Who Redefined Thrillers And Won India’s Heart

BY Ronald Tuhin D'Rozario

| Source: Nagaland Cricket Association : Despite the Odds: Young players practicing on a ground in Nagaland

The Tailenders: Chasing Cricket In India's Forgotten Frontier

BY Sangmuan Hangsing

| Photo: Patrick Eagar : Turning Point: K Srikkanth drives Andy Roberts in the final of the World Cup against West Indies at the Lord’s Cricket Ground on June 25, 1983

The Incredible, Shrinking Game

BY Mukul Kesavan

Outlook India : Previous Outlook India Magazine covers

Caste Never Went Away: Violence, Humiliation and Resistance Still Shape Our Lives

BY Outlook News Desk

| - : Ankamma, the mother of nine-year-old Venkatesh, at his burial site in Tamil Nadu

Death Of Nine-Year-Old Dalit Boy Exposes The Dark Underbelly Of Duck Rearing And Bonded Labour In Andhra

BY Swati Subhedar

Photo: Getty Images

No TV, Just Heart: Reliving India’s 1983 Cricket World Cup Win

BY Satish Padmanabhan

illustration by Saahil : From Kapil to Kohli, from Doordarshan to Disney+, the journey of Indian cricket has been both epic and intimate

How Media Transformed India From A Cricketing Backwater To A Global Powerhouse

BY Suresh Menon

| Photo: Getty Images : The Big Win: Crowd cheering for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma after India beat South Africa in the T20 World Cup finals in 2024

King Kohli And Hitman Sharma: The Legacy Of India’s Test Titans

| Photo: Getty Images : Destiny’s Child: Vaibhav plays a shot at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on April 24, 2025, in Bengaluru

About A Boy: How Vaibhav Suryavanshi Became An Overnight Cricket Sensation

BY Md Asghar Khan

Cover Artwork by Saahil : Outlook Magazine’s June 21, 2025 issue, Innings/Outings, which captures a turning point in Indian cricket —from retiring legends to small-town stars reshaping the game’s power map.

Innings/Outings: From Retiring Legends To Small-Town Stars, Indian Cricket’s Power Map Is Being Redrawn

BY Aranya Mukerji

Salvatore Cavalli: AP : On Monday, Israeli naval commandos surrounded the 18-metre boat Madleen in international waters 160 kilometres off Gaza. Videos livestreamed only minutes earlier showed volunteers in orange life jackets as speedboats, flood-lights and shouted orders cut through the dark

All Eyes on Deck: Israeli Navy Intercepts Freedom Flotilla, Blocks Aid Mission to Gaza

BY Aranya Mukerji

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Poetry |Gandhi In Court

BY Banu Mushtaq

Interview|Bestselling Author Isabel Allende on Feminist Heroines, Exile, and Magical Realism

BY Vineetha Mokkil

PTI : Vande Bharat train service begins in J-K

Heavy Security Marks Opening Of First Srinagar-Katra Train Service In Kashmir

BY Ishfaq Naseem

AP :
The Bengaluru stadium stampede that killed 11 exposes the deadly convergence of crowd psychology, state failure, caste-coded fandom, and the violent spectacle of cricket in a country where identity and sport collapse into each other.

Finding the Individual in the Crowd of Indian Cricket: From Stampedes to Caste Dynamics

BY Aranya Padil

IMDB : A couple of Bollywood films warrant a re-reading—not just as post-9/11 cultural artefacts, but as cinematic fault lines where Muslim subjectivity contends with a world that demands either total assimilation or annihilation.

Pahalgam: The Cinematic Silence Of Moral Ambiguities

AP : Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk (L) with US President Donald Trump (R)

End Of The Trump-Musk Love-Fest?

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Book Review : Prayers Are Ageless Even In Times Of Hatred

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Art and museums

The 16th Sharjah Biennial: Destabilising The Canon

BY Shaunak Mahbubani

Outlook India : After nearly a century of silence, caste is returning to the census - A look back at Outlook's Previous Issues on Caste

Counting Caste: India’s Next Big Political Faultline

BY Aranya Mukerji

- X and Truth Social Handles - : The feud between U.S. Presdient Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk

Trump and Musk: A Timeline of Alliance, Fallout, And The Epstein Files Bombshell

Getty Imahes : For the first time since 1931, caste will be formally enumerated in the national census.

2027 Caste Census: Timeline, OBC Debate And Political Stakes Explained

BY Pragya Singh

Greta Thunberg Sets Sail To Challenge ‘Livestreamed Genocide’ In Gaza, Who Is The Activist?

BY Abhijay Vaish

| Photo: Steven Aristil/Anadolu via Getty Images : Haiti unrest

Children Of War: Growing Up In Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar, And Haiti

BY Photo Webdesk

| Photo- UNICEF/Romenzi : A child plays with a homemadesled made from an empty container and a length of cable, in Roj Camp, northeast Syria.

The Forgotten Casualties: Why the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression Matters

BY Shahnaz Parveen

AP : Lee Jae-myung, leader of South Korea's Democratic Party

A New Beginning For South Korea

Getty Images : Woman displays crossed-out photos of US President Donald Trump and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu while joining hundreds of others in a demonstration in front of the US embassy protesting against the Israeli attack on Gaza

Wars in Gaza and Ukraine: Trump’s Peace Efforts Are Going Nowhere

Photo by Sandipan Chatterjee : In Manipur, where violence has redrawn the map of lives and livelihoods, the question of governance is not abstract. It is a matter of survival.

Manipur’s Quiet Fracture: Displacement, Distrust, and the Limits of Politics

BY Sangmuan Hangsing

Image courtesy of the author : Translating Rituparno Ghosh: star Bengali writer, Ram Ray’s favourite and monarch of all he surveyed from silver betel boxes to books

Translator’s Diary: How To Translate Time?

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