COVER STORY
Outlook Magazine - 18 October 2021
Nostalgia
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The state government decided to urge the Centre to declare Cyclone Ockhi, which left a trail of destruction in the state, a national calamity.
No festival is complete without its own set of myths. Traditions invented for the relatively new Durga Puja invoke a community society chooses to forget.
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The state government decided to urge the Centre to declare Cyclone Ockhi, which left a trail of destruction in the state, a national calamity.
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No festival is complete without its own set of myths. Traditions invented for the relatively new Durga Puja invoke a community society chooses to forget.
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OTHER STORIES
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"I would be happy if this were to happen, but frankly, I don't think this will happen," he said.
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The count had still not begun last night because no representatives for Nasralla had arrived
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From Lahore to Delhi, Dinesh Khanna follows in his father’s footsteps to capture extraordinary images.
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Scattered souvenirs from memory’s cache spread across Panjim, Sao Tome and Fontainhas, of growing up under Portuguese colonial shadow
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Watching films in theatres in 1980s Kashmir left an impact on the audience few could anticipate.
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The events entrenched in memory are all imbued with a tinge of grief. A medley of loss and tears in an insurgency-wrecked Valley.
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Not only do they have indubitably unique sound, old vinyl records effortlessly summon up the past in a whirl of tactility and art.
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From Partition to genocides in Rwanda and elsewhere, museums are important to understanding our fractured past.
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Exalted achievements of yore are often cited by to rehash the story of past political icons.
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The politics of nostalgia involves mobilising the masses around the yearning for a glorious past brought alive in imaginations of the future.
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The past is a world before the pandemic, a place of happiness perhaps, of love, of togetherness. We want a romanticised past to become our future.
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I never wanted to be an actor. Though I was always told that I am a good actress, I never took anybody seriously. Somehow, it happened to me and eventually I accepted it.
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Romila Thapar’s account of a 1957 journey to ancient Buddhist sites in China, across swathes of Silk Route territory and modern cities, comprises both visitor’s gaze and historian’s introspection. The result is time travel with a continually shifting lens.
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Postmen and women recall the days when the bearer of letters were served tea and snacks by grateful families.
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Oh, to be able to return to the dank, muggy, single-screen theatres in dusty mofussil towns, and to relive the magic of Bollywood formula (Ssshhh… and some desi porn)
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In circulation for centuries, such hair-raising stories were an integral part of the state’s oral literary tradition.
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An NRI looks back with fondness, and a little bit of regret, at the time when the sea was part of her everyday life but didn’t matter as much as it does now.
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Seema Guha’s recollections of the violent days in Jaffna in 1987. When a fragile truce between the Lankan army and the LTTE fell apart.
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The sights and sounds that are jarring at home become sweet music. Longing for things lost is the essence of nostalgia.
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Are your sweet memories as summer-centric as mine? One summer, I read through all my novels and comics. You see, I was bored.
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Nostalgia is now widely commoditised and its political potential is sought to be neutralised into the service of a politics of belonging over that of longing.
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Mukul Kesavan’s essay on middle-class nostalgia in India—looking back fondly at a time when Indians were worse-off than they are today.
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For the moment, the Lakhimpur Kheri crisis appears to have been defused. However, this may not mean much relief for the Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
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