When we are born, we come fully equipped with the capacity to love and be loved. But the world we step into quickly teaches us that love is not just about emotions—it is bound by boundaries, rules, and identities shaped by society and politics. Love, in its purest form, should be freeubet63, but it never is.

In 2022, ahead of Valentine’s Day, Outlook’s edition All We Need Is Love was dedicated to love. Ashutosh Sharma wrote about the killings in the name of honour, which continue in India. He described that the scary pictures of the crimes, committed in the name of honour, talk about barbarity that social conservatism generates in reaction to the assertion of sexual rights and freedom of choice regarding love relationships. 

BY Haima Deshpande

All Hockey India affiliated state member units are eligible to participate in the event and all eligible veteran players, aged around and above 40, who want to participate in the tournament will have to contact their respective member units and register through the Hockey India Member Unit Portal.

Teams finishing in the top four in the pool's points table will advance to the quarter-finals. The Indian players are currently busy preparing for the Olympics in their national camp at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru.

Asad Ashraf explored War Against Love: Bogey of ‘Love Jihad’. Used extensively by right-wing Hindu groups, the term ‘love jihad’ denotes an alleged conspiracy by Muslim men to lure Hindu women into marriage and religious conversion. 

In Lament of Separation,todaybet Naseer Ganai, based in Srinagar, wrote about Habba Khatun’s sensuous songs that make both young and old emotional. In the 16th century, after the Mughals annexed the independent kingdom of Kashmir and exiled its last king, Yousuf Shah Chak, his beloved queen, Habba Khatun, was left wailing. In the wilderness, she sang for her beloved, pleading for one glimpse. Yousuf never returned, but 500 years down the line, Kashmiris believe Habba’s songs still echo in the Valley. 

To read more stories from the issue, click here. This Valentine’s Dayubet63, Outlook's latest magazine issue explores love and loneliness, two universal emotions.