Outlook Magazine - March 01, 2025

In this issue

MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY
The binary logic of absolute divisions has increasingly shaped global political discourse
By Anand Teltumbde

WHAT AFTER REJECTING THE BINARIES?
As spaces expand under debinarised imaginations, finding the ground beneath will become all the more difficult
By Ajay Gudavarthy

UNDOCUMENTED RETURN
The deportation of illegal immigrants is the most troubling impact of a policy that is formulated on binaries— insiders vs outsiders, settlers vs migrants, locals vs aliens
By Avantika Mehta and Pritha Vashishth

My Way or the Highway

The binary logic of absolute divisions has increasingly shaped global political discourse

7 mins

Masculin Féminin

Trump's executive order to recognise only two sexes-male and female-has triggered a tragic dilemma of revealing less and concealing more

8 mins

What after Rejecting the Binaries?

As spaces expand under debinarised imaginations, finding the ground beneath will become all the more difficult

5 mins

Undocumented Return

The deportation of illegal immigrants is the most tangible and troubling impact of a policy that is formulated on binaries-insiders vs outsiders, settlers vs migrants, locals vs aliens.

9 mins

The Vortex of Nature and Culture

We need to move past false binaries amplifying the message of coexistence

5 mins

Beyond the Liminal Vantage

Binary is a departure from the conditioned acceptability to brave our choices

5 mins

Binary Bites

BJP's ultranationalism is a strategy to make up for its absence during the freedom struggle, but the binary discourse on nationalism is being weaponised to make detractors fall in line

5 mins

The Ugly Myth

Women are slotted into two categories: beautiful or ugly. Who defines beauty and who does this binary actually serve?

5 mins

Secular Occident and Religious Orient?

The Western notion of geoculturally looking at the world through the prism of the Oriental-Occidental binary is flawed but continues nonetheless

5 mins

Metastasis of Binaries

As binaries multiply, pluralism in India is being pushed into precarious terrain

5 mins

Who Moved My Orchard?

Hundreds of apple farmers living in villages in Pulwama and Anantnag are angry and upset as proposed railway lines are going to cut through their orchards

2 mins

A Signboard of Abstraction

Surrealist artist, author and provocateur Salvador Dalí finally made his way to India thanks to the curation by Christine Argillet, daughter of Pierre Argillet, Dali's publisher and lifelong friend.

5 mins

For Patna-a Promise, Kept

“If I'm alive, I'll come to the Festival of Literature on Music,” legendary vocalist Kishori Amonkar had promised once

4 mins

The Lives of Others

Australian writer Anna Funder's latest book, Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, shines the spotlight on Eileen O'Shaughnessy, celebrated writer George Orwell's first wife.

4 mins

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