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As the political spotlight shifts to Special Intensive Revision deletions, Mamata Banerjee gets a breather—instead of answering uncomfortable questions over her 15-year rule, she is getting to ask questions
Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee have been taking potshots at each other, including indulging in personal attacks, for over a decade now. That’s how they have kept Bengal polarised
Himanta Biswa Sarma was not placed on the throne of Assam’s governance. He arrived there, navigating parties, positions and ideological contradictions, adjusting swiftly and deftly as the political ground shifted in the eastern state. What has remained constant is his instinct for power and his ability to stay a step ahead of the politics he helps ferment
For Pinarayi Vijayan, who has ruled Kerala’s political stage for nearly three decades, politics appears, above all, to be about power: power within the party, and power for the party
M.K. Stalin has succeeded in reframing the political contest in Tamil Nadu as one between Dravidianism and its ideological adversaries
Doubts about the AIADMK’s future have grown stronger and talk of the end of the Dravidian binary has resurfaced. Will this election be another watershed like 1967?
Law colleges and schools are redefining the paradigms of legal profession with a visionary zeal. Innovative curricula and excellent faculty are empowering young minds to make informed decisions about choosing the noble profession. Outlook‘s 30 best private law institution ranking, says it all.
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The 2026 Amendment strips self-identification and ignores chosen kinship, putting trans people and their support networks at risk.
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One might argue that holding actors accountable at such a time is mere distraction. But those who have profited off trans lives in India—lives already marked by disproportionate levels of violence and social exclusion—do deserve to be questioned.
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'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.
The “indie” has long remained both an aesthetic and systemic outlier. Yet through it all, the industry endures—continually discovering creative, innovative and logistical pathways that empower the art of guerrilla storytelling.
From Waqt to Shaan, Hindi cinema once turned opening credits into spectacle. In the age of OTT and the “Skip Intro” button, these openings seem like a lost pleasure.
As the UN declares transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity, Hollywood's long reckoning with slavery feels more urgent and more ironic than ever.
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Presented at the Alliance Française de Delhi in March 2026, Home Away From Home (Le geste juste) explores the idea of the “right gesture”—the moment when thought becomes action and an idea takes material form.
From Indian rap and American pop to Japanese anime, paedophilic interests can masquerade as the fantasy and fetishisation of the ‘schoolgirl aesthetic’.
Riz Ahmed’s ‘Bait’ (2026) examines the brown celebrity (and family) through a self-aware comic frame that is at once incisive and reflective.
Combining disarming soulfulness with pure smarts, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller deliver the most enthralling time at the movies this year
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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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.
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