Relationships In An Era Of Isolation
Technology promised a better world. A world where everything would be accessible. Time and space would collapse and new intimacies would be formed. But we entered an era of isolation instead, writes Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha in her introduction to Outlook's Valentines Day 2025 issue
How To Be Alone | A Poem By Jeet Thayil
The title of the poem alludes to Greta Garbo’s best-known line, “I want to be alone”, and the poem may be Garbo speaking
The Intimacy Of Anonymity | A Clubhouse Love Story
The author shares his tryst with Clubhouse—the app where every lonely heart became part of a collective dirge
What Does It Mean To Be In Love?
To be in love is to check one’s mortality and start with the quiver of optimism. Here is an exploration of the state of being in love from Outlook's Valentine's Day special issue
Speed Dates And Board Games: Battling Loneliness In Metro Cities
The world is presently battling a loneliness epidemic, but it’s the ‘well-connected’ who are the loneliest. These days, they are looking to make connections at social meet-ups
Love And Loneliness: A Complicated Sisterhood
No matter how little love thinks about loneliness or pays heed to her omnipresence when life is a full-blown adventure, loneliness is always there, secretly accompanying love in all its journeys across the wild and boundless terrains of the heart.
Heart Wings And Lipstick: A Love Story In Sketches
Vaani Saikia (16) and Gurmehar Romana (17) are art and design students. In this graphic essay, the two have expressed their feelings for each other through drawings and sketches. They feel art is like prose that looks prettier and lasts longer and expressing your feelings for someone through art is the best way to let them know that they are loved unconditionally
Love In The Era Of AI: Seeking Control, Finding Loneliness
This Valentine's Day, we reflect on how the digital era allows unfiltered and uncontrolled access to romantic possibilities
'No Time For Mush': Love, Loneliness And The Urban Poor
This Valentine's Day, we explore how love and loneliness co-exist in spaces where desires struggle to navigate, and heart-to-heart conversations get muted in the cacophony of everyday drudgery
"The Etiquette Of Love Has Changed So Much" |'One Day' Author David Nicholls
Best selling author David Nicholls speaks about connections and loneliness in the digital age and the art of writing memorable romantic comedies.
Finding Love In A Locked-Down Kashmir
Love was the greatest form of resistance in Kashmir during lockdowns
Between Liberation And Loneliness: Queer Life In The City
Queer people find vibrancy and welcome anonymity in megacities but there is a limit to the choices they offer
The Silent Weight Of Separation
My divorce came with a package deal—loneliness, depression and social isolation followed
The World As The Body Of The Absent Lover
Visual artist Hari Katragadda's project ‘I’ll Be Looking At The Moon But I’ll Be Seeing You' speaks of how desire is not just about the body but the entire world through the body.
Delhi Gets A Double Engine
The BJP will have to show some quick results to Delhi’s middle class which has trusted it to improve the city’s infrastructure
The Mirage That Is Viksit Bharat | Marginspeak
Over the past decade, income and wealth generation in India have increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few
Tamil Nadu CM's Iron Age Claims: Omitting Inconvenient Questions
When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point.
The Fairy Tale Ends And Life Begins | Love On The Big Screen
While earlier films were engrossed in the poetics of separation, the turn of the millennium saw loneliness become a somewhat lingering sentiment in Indian films.
Elsewhere | A Lover’s Diary
Your lover may not have been the first woman you fantasised about touching. But—each time she refused your progress—she left behind a little of her loneliness.