The Caravan

The Caravan is India’s first narrative journalism magazine. Stories are reported in a style that uses elements usually reserved for fiction—plot, characters, scenes and setting—to bring the subject to life. Like The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Granta, the context of a Caravan story is something more substantial. In India, this niche—one for the intellectually curious, the aesthetically inclined and the upwardly mobile, has remained vacant. That is, until The Caravan.

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The Caravan

In Other Words • How India became the home of Persian lexicography

A Serpentine Quest • The long struggle to end snakebite deaths in India

Bridging the Gap • How Venezuelan students are coping with the collapse of the school system

Memory Plays • How a theatre ensemble helps people with dementia

The Gathering Storm • The government is in denial amid a deepening economic crisis

Strong Reservations • How the Meiteis’ demand for Scheduled Tribe status is fuelling tensions in Manipur

Birth of a (Muslim) Nation • An iconic film reveals the antisemitism of Pakistani progressives

FREEDOM TO EAT • THE FIGHT FOR BEEF AS A DEMOCRATIC RIGHT

From BR Ambedkar’s preface to The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?

From BR Ambedkar’s chapter “Did the Hindus never eat beef?”, in The Untouchables: Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables?

A Template for Violence • The riots that changed the course of Gujarat’s political history

Head in the Sand • How the Punjab government looks away as illegal mining continues unabated

A Hundred Years of Solitude • The life of the Lisus in Arunachal Pradesh

HER SWAN SONG • Revisiting the memoirs of a courtesan

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