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To be in love is to check one’s mortality and start with the quiver of optimism. Here is an exploration of the state of being in love from Outlook's Valentine's Day special issue
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ꦍ Technology promised a better world. A world where everything would be accessible. Time and space would collapse and new intimacies would be formed. But we entered an era of isolation instead, writes Outlook Editor Chinki Sinha in her introduction to Outlook's Valentines Day 2025 issue
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♌ The title of the poem alludes to Greta Garbo’s best-known line, “I want to be alone”, and the poem may be Garbo speaking
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♋ The author shares his tryst with Clubhouse—the app where every lonely heart became part of a collective dirge
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ꦺ The world is presently battling a loneliness epidemic, but it’s the ‘well-connected’ who are the loneliest. These days, they are looking to make connections at social meet-ups
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🔜 No matter how little love thinks about loneliness or pays heed to her omnipresence when life is a full-blown adventure, loneliness is always there, secretly accompanying love in all its journeys across the wild and boundless terrains of the heart.
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🐟 This Valentine's Day, we reflect on how the digital era allows unfiltered and uncontrolled access to romantic possibilities
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𝔉 This Valentine's Day, we explore how love and loneliness co-exist in spaces where desires struggle to navigate, and heart-to-heart conversations get muted in the cacophony of everyday drudgery
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ཧ Love was the greatest form of resistance in Kashmir during lockdowns
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🏅 Queer people find vibrancy and welcome anonymity in megacities but there is a limit to the choices they offer
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ಞ My divorce came with a package deal—loneliness, depression and social isolation followed
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💦 Visual artist Hari Katragadda's project ‘I’ll Be Looking At The Moon But I’ll Be Seeing You' speaks of how desire is not just about the body but the entire world through the body.
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💞 Is the electorate voting to reject rather than voting to elect?
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👍 The BJP will have to show some quick results to Delhi’s middle class which has trusted it to improve the city’s infrastructure
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♌ Over the past decade, income and wealth generation in India have increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few
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ཧ When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point.
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🌜 Kerala police on Wednesday arrested five senior students of the nursing college in Kottayam. The victims, according to PTI, alleged that they were forced to stand naked and were subjected to brutal acts using dumbbells meant for weightlifting.
𓂃 The national leadership is still evaluating the proposal, which will ultimately be decided upon once the chief minister and other ministers are finalized.
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꧟ Hamas earlier threatened to delay the next release of captives, accusing Israel of failing to meet its obligations to allow in tents and shelters. Responding to the threat, Israel, with the support of US President Donald Trump, said it would resume fighting if the hostages were not freed.
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🌞 The director discusses his Berlinale-premiering sophomore film shot in 16mm, the first Kannada feature at the festival
Anas Saeed, Ibrahim ‘Snoopy’ Ahmad, Rawia Alhag, Timmea Mohamed Ahmed and Phil Cox talk about the off-kilter choices, and the role of cinema in educating the world about cultures while discussing their documentary 'Khartoum'.
Babygirl's lacklustre morality, comical awkwardness and underwhelming chemistry between the protagonists feel like a surface-level exploration of desire, when set against the enormity of internal conflict.
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෴ The fort, almost abandoned and forgotten for years, started attracting attention after the commissioning of the Atal Rohtang Tunnel in 2020, providing all weather connectivity to Lahaul-Spiti, a region that had previously been inaccessible for six to seven months each year due to heavy winter snowfall.