India and other importers face minimal short-term fallout, but shifts in political control, sanctions or great-power influence could unsettle energy markets and financial systems, making Venezuela a key geopolitical fault line to watch.
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Venezuela did not launch an armed attack against the United States, nor was there any Security Council mandate permitting the use of force
An excerpt from Place by Ananya Vajpeyi, reflecting on a Banaras layered with devotion, memory, politics and transformation.
What is on display is not moral authority, constitutional discipline, or respect for international law, but the naked exercise of imperial power.
The US position of the western hemisphere constituting the strategic backyard of the US from which foreign powers will be excluded, especially China and Russia, is a throwback to imperialist thinking of the past and the division of the world into spheres of influence.
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The dream of providing safe drinking water to Jammu and Kashmir remains a distant one, with a probe currently underway into the execution of water supply schemes under the Jal Jeevan Mission in the Union Territory.
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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.
Amid aggressive public discourse and political pressure, literature survives as a quiet retreat—preserving silenced voices, resisting instant reactions, and allowing writers the freedom to wander, reflect, and reinvent meaning
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
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 meditation on love, memory and migration, where the search for home becomes less about a place and more about building belonging through care and shared histories.
The piece explores displacement, resistance and the meaning of home beyond walls and land.
An essay tracing lost memories of Bhojpuri women who migrated under indenture from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to Suriname in the 19th century
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.
In the end, a place in a story is true not because it exists on a map, but because it is the only place that specific character could have ever been born in.
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.
Yousuf Saeed examines humanity, control, and hope among the last survivors of a ruined planet.
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What explains the CPI(M)’s soft corner for Vellappally Natesan’s anti-Muslim rhetoric— electoral calculation or ideological drift?
India and other importers face minimal short-term fallout, but shifts in political control, sanctions or great-power influence could unsettle energy markets and financial systems, making Venezuela a key geopolitical fault line to watch.
The I-League, which was also held up, will be held "around the same time" as per Union sports minister Mansukh Mandaviya, with all 11 clubs in participation. All India Football Federation president Kalyan Chaubey was also part of the briefing
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On his 59th birthday, we look at how Rahman didn't just mobilise music from different parts of the world, but also brought global music production techniques and values to Indian music.
Auditions, voice work, study, reinvention and lived experience—that’s how actors continue to work beyond releases and visibility.
The strategic insertion of the past is no longer incidental in Bollywood films. It has become a deliberate trope in contemporary filmmaking. However, it also exposes a creative fatigue at the industry’s core.
Marking a significant milestone, Deepika Padukone celebrated her 40th birthday on January 5, 2026.
Auditions, voice work, study, reinvention and lived experience—that’s how actors continue to work beyond releases and visibility.
The strategic insertion of the past is no longer incidental in Bollywood films. It has become a deliberate trope in contemporary filmmaking. However, it also exposes a creative fatigue at the industry’s core.
Marking a significant milestone, Deepika Padukone celebrated her 40th birthday on January 5, 2026.
Film music from the 70s can be characterised through Burman’s perennially popular upbeat tunes that have outlived the films. However, seldom mentioned are his compositions that are soft, reflective and thoughtful, etched in film history just as permanently.
Once a thriving parallel industry, Bollywood’s lookalikes have gone from single-screen staples to social media sensations
Today, as we struggle to push back against poisonous ideas of the divine, even as we struggle to find love and sahanubhuti to navigate our very harsh realities, the film does what the very best art should–it presses sharply on our pain points and briefly manages to release them.
The Housemaid (2025) offers a guilty pleasure with its unhinged narrative turns—delivering a sense of mischievous satisfaction that is hard to resist.
Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar's film creates a surreal, dream-like world to explore identity and the courage required to accept oneself and others.
Kochi Biennale Temporarily Halts Tom Vattakuzhy’s Supper at a Nunnery Following Catholic Church Protest
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.
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.
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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Running on human coordination rather than technology, know more about Mumbai’s 130-year-old dabbawala system that continues to challenge modern food-delivery applications
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