Outlook Magazine - Bombs Do NOT Liberate Women - 21 March 2026 Issue

“Bombs will be dropping everywhere” It’s 2026. To imagine that a US President of the free world would utter these words to warn the world of strikes in the heart of another sovereign country, is probably the closest we could get to a silver screen apocalypse. Donald Trump leads America head-first into another war, digging out the innards of another sovereign country for its interests .As Israel, backed by the US, struck Iran killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, civilians and children, the world wondered in silence, again, Whose War Is It Anyway? In Outlook’s March 21 issue, Bombs Do Not Liberate Women, we look at the conflict in West Asia following US and Israel’s attacks on Iran leading to the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and how it falls in the cycle of wars and US’ imperialist projects, analysing the human cost beyond political aftermath and asking the questions when most of the global north refuses to do so. Amir Ali, who teaches at the Centre of Political Studies, JNU, looks at the US and Israel’s attempt at reconfiguring West Asia’s political map. Mohammad Sajjad, Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in History, AMU dissects America’s how it has constantly kept West Asia in a state of unrest. Outlook’s reporters Mrinalini Dhyani and Zenaira Baksh write on America’s twisted pursuit of liberating countries and the psychic numbing and compassion fatigue of consuming violence respectively. Vijay Prasad, Director at the Tricontinental Institute, writes on the spillage of the war into Lebanon, a country already bearing the brunt of decades-long unrest. Snigdhendu traces the entire politcal history of Iran since 1979, Gen Saha writes on India's defence strategy, Seema Guha on diplomacy and Ashlin on India Iran diplomacy. Read all and this more in the latest issue of Outlook