"How’s one going to get through it all? How can you live if you can’t love? And how can you live if you do?" —James Baldwin, Another Country
Love is more than sentiment—it is resistance. In a world where caste, class, religion, and digital isolation shape human connections, love remains a political act. It challenges structures, defies expectations, and refuses to be confined. Baldwin saw love as a force that pushes us to confront history, identity, and ourselves. To love is to question, to break free from assigned identities, and to imagine a different future.
Capitalism commodifies love, reducing it to an exchange, while politics dictates who can love whom. Yet love, in its truest form, resists these limitations. It has always been an act of defiance—whether through lovers crossing borders or communities fighting for acceptance. The politics of love is the refusal to forget, the demand for dignity, and the hope for a more inclusive world.
Love today is also evolving—embracing new identities, breaking binaries, and reshaping relationships. From polyamory to queer love, from devotion to rebellion, love is shedding its old definitions and creating new ways of belonging. It is both personal and revolutionary.
In an era of rising polarisation and digital alienation, can love still redeem us? Can it challenge hate, reshape politics, and reclaim democracy? Outlook explores love and loneliness in its current issue.
Opening Artwork: Aradhana Seth
Produced by: Divya
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Love is more than sentiment—it is resistance. In a world where caste, class, religion, and digital isolation shape human connections, love remains a political act. It challenges structures, defies expectations, and refuses to be confined. Baldwin saw love as a force that pushes us to confront history, identity, and ourselves. To love is to question, to break free from assigned identities, and to imagine a different future.
Capitalism commodifies love, reducing it to an exchange, while politics dictates who can love whom. Yet love, in its truest form, resists these limitations. It has always been an act of defiance—whether through lovers crossing borders or communities fighting for acceptance. The politics of love is the refusal to forget, the demand for dignity, and the hope for a more inclusive world.
Love today is also evolving—embracing new identities, breaking binaries, and reshaping relationships. From polyamory to queer love, from devotion to rebellion, love is shedding its old definitions and creating new ways of belonging. It is both personal and revolutionary.
In an era of rising polarisation and digital alienation, can love still redeem us? Can it challenge hate, reshape politics, and reclaim democracy? Outlook explores love and loneliness in its current issue.
Opening Artwork: Aradhana Seth
Produced by: Divya
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Website: https://www.outlookindia.com/
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#PoliticsOfLove #Love #RadicalLove #Love #Revolution #LoveBeyondBorders #DigitalLove #Loneliness #Hope #Longing #ValetinesDay #OutlookMagazine
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00:00I know this is the time for love stories, but my will is about love.
00:05Every year, February 14 is fetishized as the day of love.
00:08Red hearts and teddies and chocolates and roses are everywhere, in the real and in the
00:14virtual world.
00:16Love sells.
00:17Two people now find what's best available based on their exchange value.
00:22Love, how does one hold it?
00:29Define it.
00:30It is a whisper in the dark, a fist raised in defiance, a longing stretched across borders.
00:39It is both the silence between lovers and the roar of revolutions.
00:43Love has always been political.
00:46In a country where caste, class and religion dictate who you may love, love itself becomes
00:51an act of resistance.
00:53Love is colorblind, they say, yet seen through a prism, it has many hues.
00:58Political, religious, revolutionary.
01:01James Baldwin wrote, love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up.
01:08To love is to rethink our sense of reality and it honors the dignity and freedom of the
01:13other.
01:14That's a political act because it means coming to terms with history and questioning it.
01:18Love can reclaim the lost promise of democracy.
01:21It alone can condemn the exploitative logic of capitalism.
01:25It can imagine new modes of relationality.
01:28It can redeem societies, people and histories.
01:33The answer and the antidote is the politics of love.
01:37But is that politics easy in the digital world where technology has made us hyper-connected
01:42while also isolating us from each other, making us lonelier?
01:48All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
01:52Some say love is divine, not the tame, ornamental kind, but the love that burns, bhakti, sufi,
01:59longing without an end.
02:01Love of the divine isn't safe, it isn't tame, and most definitely is not for the faint of
02:06heart.
02:07We have been through apocalyptic times and we are still in the tunnel, but we hope love,
02:13pure and unshackled, can perhaps bring out the best in humanity.
02:18Love is hope, even in all its shade, green, grey, white and the disappearing red.
02:24There are all kinds of love.
02:26There is love that refuses definition, the radical, the unbound, the kind that shapes
02:31new futures and informs new intimacies, and challenges the status quo, polyamory, neurosexual,
02:39non-king-positive, pan-romantic, a world where love is shedding its skin, finding new ways
02:45to exist.
02:48For those who are polyamorous, different needs are met by different folks, one could have
02:52different king partners, platonic partners and nesting partners.
02:57All of this leaves us in a state of flux.
03:00What is love if not the ultimate revolution?
03:03In a world desperate to name, control and limit, love breaks free, again and again.
03:10Love is a promise, it is the refusal to forget, it is the dream of a world not yet realised.
03:17Love is hope, it is war, it is surrender and fight, exile and homecoming.
03:25And in the end, love is the only story we have.
03:30Outlook Magazine's issue on love and loneliness tells such stories.