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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