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Md. Asghar Khan/ Outlook Photos : 28-year-old Arun Kumar (R) with 65-year-old father Vishwanath Sao (L)

Migration And Unemployment Will Play A Decisive Role In The Upcoming Elections In Bihar

BY Md Asghar Khan

X :
The 2025 International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq’s works speak the universal language of human experience

Burning Bright: Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ Makes History

BY Vineetha Mokkil

GETTY IMAGES : While efforts to de-escalate the India-Pakistan conflict were praised by all, no country assigned explicit blame to Pakistan for the April 22, 2025 terror attack at Pahalgam, Kashmir

India- Pakistan Ceasefire: The World Reacts

BY Aranya Mukerji

| Photo: AP : The Big Chunk: The results of the Bihar caste survey showed 63 per cent of the electorate comprised the OBCs and EBCs

EBCs Are Emerging as Bihar’s Decisive Political Force

BY Md Asghar Khan

Photo: AP/Anupam Nath

A Warmongers’ Diary| What Does War With Pakistan Really Mean?

BY Satish Padmanabhan

Photo: Getty Images : Border Issue: Nepalese students protest against border encroachments by both China and India at Maitighar Mandala on November 17, 2019

Indo-Nepal Relations: The Blind Spots of South Asian Diplomacy

| Photo: AP : Strike Back: Soldiers inspect a building damaged by an Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on
May 7, 2025

Operation Sindoor: How India Rewrites Its War Doctrine

BY Lt Gen (retd) Subrata Saha

Getty Images

India and Pakistan: A History of Escalation, Diplomacy, and Peace Agreements

AP : Palestinians looking for survivors under the rubbles after Israeli air strikes destroyed buildings

Israel Is Losing The War Of Global Public Opinion

| Photo: AP : Before and After: A satellite image shows the damaged runway at PAF Base Mushaf in Sargodha, Pakistan

Trapped by the Neighbourhood: India’s Strategic Autonomy and the New Logic of War

BY Tanvir Aeijaz

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Unquiet On The Eastern Front: China’s Rise and the Fragile Trijunction at India’s Borders

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images : Indian lawyer Prashant Bhushan addresses a press conference at the Press Club of India, in New Delhi on May 19, 2025.

"We Are Stateless, But Not Voiceless”: Rohingya Refugees Speak Out

BY Avantika Mehta

| Photo: AP : Cascading Effect: People cross the Chenab River after the flow of water was halted from a dam at Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu, on May 5, 2025

Indus Waters Treaty: Unfair And Outdated

Artwork by Yasmeen Abdullah : ‘To The Enemy Who Drinks Tea In Our Hut’

Beyond the Ceasefire: What India’s Uneasy Dance with America Reveals

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Love Thy Neighbours

BY Chinki Sinha

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

India's Foreign Service Crisis: Big Dreams, Thin Cast

BY Avantika Mehta

| Photo: Yasir Iqbal : Shattered: Father of Ranjeet Singh, who died due to shelling from across the LoC on May 7, in Poonch

India-Pakistan Ceasefire: Ground Reports From Kashmir’s Border Towns

BY Ishfaq Naseem

Courtesy DAG : ‘Bangladesh War’ (1971) Artwork by Chittaprosad

The Homey Taste Of Lies

Illustration: Vikas Thakur

Operation Sindoor: The Troll Tax

BY Pragya Singh

Outlook’s new issue, Gated Neighbourhood, goes behind the barricades of diplomacy, media spectacle, and statecraft to ask urgent questions.

Gated Neighbourhood: Outlook’s Next Issue on the State of Diplomacy, Media, and Democracy Post-Ceasefire

BY Outlook News Desk

PTI : Virat Kohli bid farewell to Test cricket, closing a 14-year chapter soaked in fire, fight, and a ferocious will to win.

Virat Kohli: The Last Gladiator Of Indian Test Cricket Bows Out

BY Outlook Sports Desk

Vikam Sharma

Culture & Society

Is There A Free Public Space for Phule And Ambedkar In Indian Public Discourse?

BY Jadumani Mahanand

Getty Images : Thomas J. Price’s 'Grounded in the Stars' sparks a slew of questions about public art and the politics of representation

Culture & Society

The Politics of Public Art

BY Aranya Mukerji

Urdu Literature

Culture & Society

The Marginalisation Of Urdu Language In The Indian Narrative

BY Younus Yousuf Ganie

Ravi Kiran Ayyagari : Ruchi Bakshi Sharma and Sanjeev Sharma

Art and museums

Making Meanings Of Our Own

BY Animikh Chakrabarty

x : Illustration by Saahil

Inside Taloja Prison: A Study

Getty Images : A personal meditation on memory, migration, and shared humanity in times of conflict, tracing unlikely connections across the India–Pakistan divide.

Looking Over the Wall: Waging A War Upon War?

Penguin Random House : Book Cover of Heart Lamp

International Booker Prize Winner| Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Review

Yasir Iqbal

Poetry | Amidst War and Hostilities

BY Shantashree Mohanty

Getty/ X : Cannes

Art & Entertainment

Juliette Binoche, Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Guillermo del Toro Among New Names To Sign Letter Condemning Industry Silence Over Gaza

BY Debanjan Dhar

X : Spanning eight decades and four wars, India’s fraught history with Pakistan is marked by terror strikes, border clashes and shifting doctrines, culminating in a missile-led offensive after the 2025 Pahalgam attack that may push both nations to the brink once again.

India-Pakistan Conflict: Conflicted At Birth

BY Danita Yadav

India-Pakistan Conflict: Response In Real Time

BY Danita Yadav

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