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.

The Caravan

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Into the Forest • An Adivasi village forages for survival during the COVID-19 lockdown / Communities

State of Denial • Britain’s COVID-19 response reveals the last gasps of its welfare state / Health

The Central Problem • How the union government is undermining states’ fight against COVID-19 / Government

Death by a Thousand Cuts • Why the relief package will not undo the lockdown’s destruction of the MSMEs / Economy

Internal Matters • How the Modi government deflects international censure / Politics

Troubling Symptoms • The COVID-19 pandemic could help create a dystopian surveillance regime / Politics

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Minding Their Business • The unfinished battle for sex workers’ rights

A report on the operations of Apne Aap, an anti-trafficking NGO, in Forbesganj and Kolkata

Out of Breath • The lives of manual scavengers in Tamil Nadu

A Baroque Urbanism • Telling stories with buildings in Dhaka and Karachi

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