Outlook Magazine: Love Virtually

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Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Outlook’s latest issue explores the many kinds of love, from online dating for the youth and dating for the elderly to otherworldly and unrequited love. The issue will also look at how the concept of love has evolved at a time when the divide between communities of different faiths is widened by politics.  #LoveInTheTimeOfAlgorithms #DatingApps #VirtualLove #OnlineDating #RentABoyfriend #FindingLove #InterCasteMarriage #ExclusionarySociety #CrimeAgainstWomen #TrustOnline #EscapeFromReality #FinancialFraud #Assault #EmotionalDeception #Metaverse #DigitalAvatars #YouthDating #ElderlyDating #Love #ValentineDay

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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from its latest issue titled "Love Virtually".

00:05 Ahead of Valentine's Day, Outlook's latest issue explores the many kinds of love,

00:10 from online dating for the youth and dating for the elderly,

00:14 to the otherworldly and unrequited love.

00:17 The issue also looks at how the concept of love has evolved

00:22 at a time when the divide between communities of different faiths is widened by politics.

00:28 On the cover of Outlook's latest issue titled "Love Virtually"

00:33 is an artwork by artist Sudarshan Shetty from his show called "Love" in 2006.

00:38 Photograph of the artwork is by Vinay Mahindra.

00:42 Excerpts from the text by Vaijanthi Rao for Sudarshan Shetty's show puts the image in a context.

00:49 "The strange and hilarious coupling of two giant toys evokes the marriage of desire

00:55 to a system of fetishism, of obsession with things as substitutes for a system of affects connected to love,

01:03 to childhood games and adult assessments of value.

01:07 With objects sudden vested with desire, the spectator's laughter over this couple

01:13 recognizes a familiar struggle between desire and its extinction

01:18 in the comedy of complicity that unites the viewer with these fetish objects."

01:24 In the introduction titled "Love's Worth", contemporary Indian artist Sudarshan Shetty writes,

01:31 "Love's signs are everywhere and nowhere in particular,

01:34 something that evades the grasp every time one may try to hold it dear.

01:40 Love, a phenomenon that can oscillate between an emotion that may appear to be so real

01:46 and like the idea of youth, a marketable tool for advertising of objects that we may or may not need."

01:55 For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.

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