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
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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
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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.
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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
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Kuki-Zo leaders meet CM Yumnam Khemchand Singh in Guwahati for an “ice-breaking” dialogue, even as protests and violence underscore the fragility of peace efforts.
President Donald Trump warned late Saturday that the U.S. would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it didn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets in the region.
IPL 2026 build-up sees KL Rahul opening for DC, Starc’s delay, Bumrah at CoE, and Gavaskar raising concerns over overseas players’ commitment
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.
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.
Aditya Dhar’s second instalment in the franchise reveals clear ambition, but raises a pressing question: does it genuinely register the suffering of victims of war, or does it reduce them to instruments of provocation for a gory spectacle?
Stefan Borsos, programmer of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, talks to Outlook about programming, funding, film festivals and Indian cinema.
US and Israel’s war on Iran has sparked reactions across the political spectrum. The most troubling response, however, comes from influencers who now seem to be replacing journalism for the global population.
A decade on, what makes Kapoor & Sons still stand the test of time is not just that it addressed taboo subjects, but how it did so. For a change, it was not the “ungrateful” children, but the unwittingly manipulative parents who were under the microscope in this film.
CPH:DOX 2026 | Stunningly shot by Anish Sarai, the doc mingles design and freestyle in an atmospheric evocation.
Red Lorry Film Festival 2026 | This Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield starrer resists a simplistic diagnosis of a “crisis in masculinity,” probing the cultural conditions that amplify disconnection instead.
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