To engage with landscape today is to reject superficial beauty and cultivate inner vision — a deliberate peeling back of layers to reveal the stories of struggle embedded within.
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In one room, rain fell upward. In another, walls peeled back like eyelids to reveal constellations no telescope had catalogued.
Most of the land’s original inhabitants and blue-collar migrant workers, labelled ‘economically unviable’ or Subterraneans, have been relocated to artificially created underground caverns: out of sight.
We dedicate this issue to those who venture into the elsewhere, to people made of paper and to those who imagine and dismantle entire worlds for the sake of love.
Some homes break free from the linear passage of time, from codes that perform perfection, from everything that is a supposition or an assumption.
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We dedicate this issue to those who venture into the elsewhere, to people made of paper and to those who imagine and dismantle entire worlds for the sake of love.
A hidden inner refuge guides us, preserving the clarity and calm the outer world cannot offer.
In Dreams. There is no Alice. There is no Wonderland. There is wonder. And there is arousal. Of the imaginary. A tactility in the text that conveys the illicit and the unmentionable.
Márquez’s Macondo And Gandhi, Still Undeciphered
Despatches from the forgotten village
It is difficult to discern the difference between real space and fictional space. The writer needs the artistic skill to fuse the two.
The acts of breathing in and out become compositional devices—intervals through which rhythm and exhaustion surface as material conditions for speaking and being.
Violence is endlessly recyclable. Stop torture. Stop bulldozer injustice. Remember that we live in one world. Remember that the body forgets nothing, nor does the earth.
Some homes break free from the linear passage of time, from codes that perform perfection, from everything that is a supposition or an assumption.
True longing alchemises us. As the experience of incompleteness eats into our innards, it births us, gradually, into a new wholeness. And one day, it would seem, we no longer see any conflict between earth and sky, now and forever. The divide has been healed. We are home. Elsewhere is right here.
A hasty, forgetful walk through Osnabrück transforms streets where past and present meet in moments of reflection, and timelessness.
This space which I want to create, unlike that of the real world, has to be open to possibilities, to dialogues, to alternate viewpoints, and defined by an underlying sense of respect.
To engage with landscape today is to reject superficial beauty and cultivate inner vision — a deliberate peeling back of layers to reveal the stories of struggle embedded within.
Every once in a while, along comes a story that shakes our self-assurance, and forces us to reconsider humanity. If fantasy and science fiction offer alternative visions for humanity, they also warn of the pitfalls of going in the opposite direction.
A glimpse of silverlings, small and sharply darting, in a rain-dark puddle, gone almost in the same moment they’re noticed.
Writers' impressions of the fall of Kabul, as they turn the pages of their collective diary
Buland Masjid emerges as a paradoxical space where hunger is constant, yet food is abundant, making it a daily feast shaped by migrant lives, labour and remembered cuisines.
Imagination enables metamorphosis, and metamorphosis is what I’m after. Not just as a maker, but as a seeker, a spectator.
In this essay, Antony Arul Valan examines how R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi embeds caste hierarchies in everyday language rather than explicit ideology
In one room, rain fell upward. In another, walls peeled back like eyelids to reveal constellations no telescope had catalogued.
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Overall, ‘Ikkis’ proves to be a fantastic palate cleanser to the nationalistic drama genre, balancing the appetite for action with the very real human costs of war.
The defining mood of films and shows in 2025 wasn’t hope or despair, but emotional untidiness.
Outlook's Picks 2025: Five Indian films that mattered more than box office—from Lokah's superhero revolution to Bad Girl's honest coming-of-age. Discover the year's most powerful, provocative, and heartfelt cinema.
For Sen, cinema could never be alienated from the society it claimed to mirror.
The defining mood of films and shows in 2025 wasn’t hope or despair, but emotional untidiness.
Outlook's Picks 2025: Five Indian films that mattered more than box office—from Lokah's superhero revolution to Bad Girl's honest coming-of-age. Discover the year's most powerful, provocative, and heartfelt cinema.
For Sen, cinema could never be alienated from the society it claimed to mirror.
A hundred years later, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin reminds us that the most effective propaganda does not announce itself. And perhaps that is exactly why, even now, some would rather we didn’t watch it at all.
Rajesh Khanna’s downfall was as dramatic as his rise to the top. Perhaps he was a victim of his own image or was carried away by all the adulation. Whatever the reason, he was dethroned before he was ready to abdicate.
Shaikh may not have been in any rush to make a career in the movies, but his roles made a mark on generations to come.
In the Khan-trio, Salman’s superstardom has frayed the most.
Wright delivers a film that functions efficiently as studio entertainment, while sidestepping the discomfort that once made King’s story sting. For a story about running for one’s life, it rarely feels like it’s risking anything at all.
Paula Beer’s soft, unforced presence effortlessly fits into the German auteur’s latest.
Legendary actor and director Mohammad Bakri passed away on Wednesday at the age of 72, according to his family. He had been suffering from heart problems.
The exclusion of six films from IFFK has triggered an uneasy debate about censorship, compliance, and what an international film festival owes its audience.
Beyond mainstream year-enders: Outlook's Picks 2025 spotlights provocative festival films from Berlin to Cannes that pushed cinema's boundaries. Discover the bold, daring works that redefined storytelling and impressed global juries.
The film is admirably sturdy, even if it is familiar in its preoccupation with grief and mortality, for it is elevated by a cast that really brings the best out of each other.
In a vitiated landscape, the finest of Indian independent cinema asks us to slow down, muse and provoke.
Comeback is the flavour of the season. Akshaye Khanna's character in 'Dhurandhar' is the mood, the talk and the deal on social media much like Bobby Deol in 'Animal'. What connects them?
Achal Mishra's latest isn’t meditative because of the aesthetically pleasing chiaroscuro; it is the way the greatness of Vinod Kumar Shukla’s fleeting musings drift through the ordinariness of his lifestyle that draws you into the film.
Whether one prefers the bittersweet ache of a delicate romance or the absurdity of holiday misadventures, here are Outlook’s picks for ten must-watch Christmas films (listed without ranking), that need to be on your watchlist this year.
The IFFK programme, true to form, remained vast and unapologetically sprawling, with Indian films jostling against weighty retrospectives, restored classics, and a relentless stream of international festival favourites.
Drawing on personal history and the turbulent political landscape of Assam and the Northeast, Dhiraj Rabha creates layered installations that challenge official narratives and expose the power structures that underpin them.
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