This is a book of short steps and long walks along familiar routes that have often led the writer to unexpected places
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The rise of app-based cabs and new vehicle rules have led to a decline. Hindustan Motors stopped making the Ambassador, so there are no new taxis to replace the old ones
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For the most part, unlike Heart Lamp, which the style, the underlying sorrow and the narrow canvas recall, the stories lack the sophistication of urban undercurrents- life revolves around festivals and the cycles of the seasons, which directly impact livelihoods.
The Khari Boli–Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, religion, resistance, and aspiration.
This was the first time in the last two decades that the Thackeray brothers appeared on the political stage overcoming their differences for the cause of 'Marathi Manoos' (people).
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's "Jaha Jhuggi Waha Makaan" manifesto promised affordable housing to Delhi's slum dwellers, but for many, that promise remains unfulfilled.
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This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
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As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.
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NGO Association for Democratic Reforms, through Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan, has challenged EC’s Special Intensive Revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls ahead of the Bihar State elections.
Strategic stockpiling aims to shield Europe from supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical tensions, cyber threats, and climate challenges
Neeraj Chopra won the inaugural NC Classic on Saturday, July 5, at Bengaluru’s Sree Kanteerava Stadium. After the event, he spoke to Outlook, picked his favourite and the next big thing in Indian javelin throw, and watching him compete, it’s easy to see why
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Compared to Dominion, Rebirth is a noticeable step up in tone, visual ambition, and atmosphere. But even the most accomplished direction can’t mask the story’s lack of originality and coherence.
Through ‘bold’ pap stunts, influencers navigate a competitive digital world, but the outrage they spark reveals more about society’s discomfort with women’s autonomy than about their clothes.
The hyperlink spiritual sequel throws a lot at the wall but sparkles only occasionally
The Ramayana, while revered, remains a narrative—meant to be reimagined. What was once a text reshaped by regional, caste-driven, and feminist voices is now increasingly illustrated as a fixed, singular truth.
Through ‘bold’ pap stunts, influencers navigate a competitive digital world, but the outrage they spark reveals more about society’s discomfort with women’s autonomy than about their clothes.
The hyperlink spiritual sequel throws a lot at the wall but sparkles only occasionally
The Ramayana, while revered, remains a narrative—meant to be reimagined. What was once a text reshaped by regional, caste-driven, and feminist voices is now increasingly illustrated as a fixed, singular truth.
The Iranian master’s final film, 24 Frames, erases lines between photography and cinema
American actors Mark Bennington and Edward Sonnenblick recount their Bollywood experience in a recent flurry of roles that sees them as British colonisers, CIA operatives, Russian diplomats and the foreigner son-in-law.
With the Chief Minister's Grassroots Music Programme comes not only income, but a shift in the posture of musicians in Meghalaya from performance as a plea to performance as presence.
Squid Game 3 is not a mere thriller or an engaging cinematic experience—it sheds light on socio-economic dynamics, moral decay, social realism, human psychology, and the unrelenting penetration of capital.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Making room for the personal alongside the political, Guru Dutt’s films ask difficult questions that continue to make us queasy.
Pride Month Special | Queer films currently emerging in India aren’t love-conquers-all stories, but grounded ones—closer to what is, rather than what should be. They reflect a world where “love is love” still feels more like an aspiration than a reality.
The first South Indian Hindi film of Guru Dutt where he played the male lead was 1963 film Bahurani, directed by T Prakash Rao.
Pride Month Special | Little happened in Rituparno Ghosh’s films that the director hadn’t already lived through—or at the very least, felt in his bones—as is so often the case with the most honest art.
Despite the many examples before Aamir Khan, his gaze towards differently-abled actors in his latest film is myopic, disingenuous and borderline utilitarian.
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
Bollywood routinely profits from hypernationalist military narratives that demonise entire communities in the name of storytelling, but scrutiny of such films is often met with resentment instead of critical thinking. The 'Sardaar ji 3' controversy exemplifies that outrage only erupts when someone dares to imagine a version of India that doesn’t include perpetual hostility.
Lost in a pointless loop, the once-exhilarating series no longer knows what to say
The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, that its digitally restored re-release in the theatres has brought so much delight to audiences old and young.
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The Khari Boli–Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, religion, resistance, and aspiration.
SEBI’s Action Against Jane Street: A Turning Point for FPIs and Algo Trading in India
Sebi Probe In Jane Street Not Over, Will Focus On Other Indices, Exchanges, Patterns
An Eco-Architect And A Professor Answer What It Means To Preserve Heritage
Bollywood icon becomes the first Indian actress to be honoured with a star on the legendary Los Angeles sidewalk
