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Did Judas Iscariot–who betrayed Jesus—have God on his side? Bob Dylan asked 63 years ago. The US, Israel and Iran’s invocation of religious war brings that question back
Why did it take so very long for India to find its voice in the context of the multipronged attack on Iran?
Have the mandarins in South Block misread the US-Israel war against Iran?
India’s LPG system is efficient in normal times but fragile in crises
Long queues, rising black-market prices and shrinking meals mark the capital’s unfolding cooking gas crisis.
Migrant workers in Maximum City voice hunger issue hit by the LPG crisis triggered by the war in West Asia.
In Kashmir, the war against Iran and Iran’s retaliatory strikes have seen both men and women line up outside gas depots, and dwindling stocks mean that people’s daily routine has gone haywire.
How the war in West Asia is disrupting lives across India
The hospitality sector, particularly in India's hill states, may be hit hard by the energy crisis because of the war on Iran, soon before peak tourist season
With shifting alliances, internal crises within established parties, and new political actors seeking space, the coming election could test the resilience of the Dravidian political order
Ahead of the polls, TMC presents 2026 as a battle remains against an external ideological force, while for BJP it is about reclaiming Bengal’s 'lost past' centered around Hindu identity.
As the "culture war” is waged by the camps in Bengal, it falls in the pattern of distancing the voters from material issues like corruption, or industrial decline
Assam’s electoral issues are many: eviction drives, razed lives and identity crises
Pragmatism has often preceded ideology in Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s decision-making in Left-ruled Kerala
Federal relations, rather than being cooperative, have turned conflictual, and since the last decade or so, become mutually manipulating
When the politics of the day seeks to bring its divisive agenda to the classroom and poison the minds of future generations with propaganda, only the court can intervene to preserve our constitutional values
It is not enough to drown-swim in our anguish at what is being unleashed in so many unequal wars around us.
This collection of essays is a testimony to cities that devolve, disappear, and reappear as altered landscapes, haunted by the histories they can no longer hold
The basic thing that people in Iran have wanted all this time is simple: a secular state, a separation of church and state. Democracy, a voice, a normal life without fear, without control.
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Prithvi Shaw, once a promising prospect in Indian cricket, endured a dip in form that saw him miss out on the national team and go unsold at the IPL 2025 auction. However, his return to Delhi Capitals for the 2026 season offers him a fresh chance to revive his career and mount a comeback
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The redeemer of Naya Bharat is the middle-aged, ultraviolent asexual hero—a machine being that can effortlessly simulate human sexuality, but the single-minded purpose of its construction is to do away with the nation’s enemies.
Hollywood may prefer its politics fictional, but artists, the stubborn creatures that they are, keep rabble rousing. One of the first major flashpoints in Hollywood arrived in the late 1970s with Vanessa Redgrave.
Critics' Choice Awards 2026 full winners list: In the feature film category, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, which led with six nominations, won four major awards. Black Warrant dominated in the web series category.
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Hollywood may prefer its politics fictional, but artists, the stubborn creatures that they are, keep rabble rousing. One of the first major flashpoints in Hollywood arrived in the late 1970s with Vanessa Redgrave.
Critics' Choice Awards 2026 full winners list: In the feature film category, Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, which led with six nominations, won four major awards. Black Warrant dominated in the web series category.
CPH:DOX 2026 | Director Nathan Grossman shrewdly uses a bipartite structure to undercut a Westerner’s excursion into the heart of an Amazonian tribe.
Reflecting on Emraan Hashmi’s 47th birthday today, the entanglement of his career with people discovering the delights of contraband sharing and digital repeatability, perhaps remains the biggest aspect his popularity.
The basic thing that people in Iran have wanted all this time is simple: a secular state, a separation of church and state. Democracy, a voice, a normal life without fear, without control.
Two decades later, Miley Cyrus' Disney alter ego returns with an anniversary special and a generation finds itself revisiting who they were when it all began.
The double Oscar-winning animated musical fantasy has sealed Hallyu’s total world domination. Its wins attest to the fact that even Hollywood has sat up to acknowledge K-Pop.
On his 95th martyrdom day, Bhagat Singh continues to be celebrated on screens, stages, songs, streets—caught between the definitions of martyr and thinker, patriot and radical, spectacle and symbol.
CPH:DOX 2026 | Pieter-Jan De Pue’s doc follows three brothers ripped apart by war, geographically and emotionally. It veers away from standard war chronicles into recollections and regrets left by such times.
'Bollywood By Choice' is Outlook's weekly column that examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of Indian cinema—Bollywood and beyond—offering praise and criticism with equal fairness to both the deserving and the disappointing.
Amid the state-aligned censorship of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ (2025) by the CBFC, here are ten films on Palestinian lives that remain accessible to watch in India.
Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated film serves an intense, impassioned wake-up call for everyone who has been witnessing a live-streamed genocide by Israel in Gaza for nearly three years.
This stirring yet uneven JioHotstar series confronts marital rape, patriarchy and the idea of consent within the Indian household.
The recent re-release of the restored version of this film, directed by Pradip Kishen and written by Arundhati Roy, in theatres to packed houses should dispel any doubts about its enduring enchantment, or its relevance in the contemporary.
Joshua Seftel's Oscar-winning documentary short film follows journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, as they revisit the rooms of victims of school shootings and meet their parents, for whom time has effectively stopped since the day their lives got upended.
The Voice of Hind Rajab has been censored in India as it is a sensitive film and it would break India-Israel ties.
Korean actor So Ji-sub is one of the co-producers of Kaouther Ben Hania's Oscar-nominated docudrama. The actor has narrated the Korean theatrical trailer for the film, set for release on April 15.
From Khatiyas to Cholis, Hindi film music has always flirted with the line. The Nora Fatehi-Sanjay Dutt starrer “Sarke Chunar” song controversy has just dragged the discourse back into the spotlight.
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