Foul Is Fair: The Power And Peril Of Binary Thinking
Binaries present a complex grid. Popular culture has always trapped us in the binary political, social and cultural grids. It is a matrix of this and that, us and them. Forever opposed in a morality battle, forever choosing sides.
Politics Of Division: Why Autocrats Foster Binary Thinking
Autocratic and fascist regimes consolidate power by reducing complex socio-political realities into rigid binary oppositions. Instead of addressing systemic economic inequalities, they redirect public anger toward scapegoats—immigrants, minorities and dissenting voices.
Why Gender And Sex Binaries Cannot Be Placed In A Straight Line
Trump’s executive order to recognise only two sexes—male and female—has triggered a tragic dilemma of revealing less and concealing more
From Politics To Love, Breaking Binaries Creates A Crisis Of Meaning
As spaces expand under debinarised imaginations, finding the ground beneath will become all the more difficult
The American Nightmare | Deportees From US Recount Horrors Of The 'Dunki' Routes
Donald Trump’s return as US President has directly resulted in Indians detained as illegal immigrants being herded into military airplanes in inhuman conditions and deposited back to where they came from. Some of them recounted their experiences to Outlook.
'USA Chalo': A Rallying Cry That Soured
The Gujaratis among the illegal immigrants deported in shackles from the US are left to pick up tragic pieces of the life they thought they had escaped.
Nature Vs Culture: Does Nature Exist Only Where Humans Don't?
We need to move past false binaries amplifying the message of coexistence
Thinking Beyond Gender Binaries
Binaries are presented through the biological division of reproduction. Yet, the choices of bodies to claim a specific category remain open-ended.
BJP’s Binary Lens On Nationalism
BJP’s ultranationalism is a strategy to make up for its absence during the freedom struggle, but the binary discourse on nationalism is being weaponised to make detractors fall in line
The Ugly Myth: Who Decides What’s Beautiful?
Women are slotted into two categories: beautiful or ugly. Who defines beauty and who does this binary actually serve?
Rise Of Christian Nationalism, And The West's Double Standards
The Western notion of geoculturally looking at the world through the prism of the Oriental-Occidental binary is flawed but continues nonetheless
Binaries Are Pushing India's Pluralism To The Margins
In the call for ‘nation first’, we are witnessing a sort of ‘pathological homogenisation’ by the State-building elites in India.
Who Moved My Orchard? | A Rail Line Plan Draws Protest In Kashmir
Hundreds of apple farmers living in villages in Pulwama and Anantnag are angry and upset as proposed railway lines are going to cut through their orchards
'Dalí Saw All Religions As A Way To Connect Us' | In Conversation With Christine Argillet
The exhibition ‘Dalí Comes to India’ , held from February 7 to 13 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, showcased nearly 200 of his artworks of the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí from the Argillet Collection
Restoring Bihar's Musical Glory
The second edition of Patna's Festival of Literature on Music is set to be held at the Bihar Museum on March 1 and 2, 2025.
Rescuing Mrs. Orwell | In Conversation With Anna Funder
George Orwell’s first wife Eileen was a writer herself and an Oxford graduate whose creative input and support to her husband were barely acknowledged. Australian Writer Anna Funder used newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend to resurrect Eileen’s life.
Where Leisureliness Is Key To Happiness| Zanzibar Diary
Zanzibar makes no demands on the visitor, and that is a major attraction. You are free to do what you came to do–laze by the sea.