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

Spaces and Times • How cultural initiatives nurture collective activity at the farmers’ protests / Media

Root Cause • How the Miyawaki method can transform Indian cities / Environment

Frayed Threads • Coir workers in Kerala struggle for survival / Labour

Fixing the Gaze • The Madam Chief Minister poster and the genealogy of a new Dalit assertion / Caste

Selection Bias • The Modi government’s efforts to curate a revisionist history / Arts

False Remedies • The Modi government’s woeful record of suppressing information on COVID-19 / Health

The Player • Akshay Kumar’s role as Hindutva’s poster boy

field notes • Dispatches from the farmer protests

SECOND INNINGS • How post-retirement ambitions imperil judges’ integrity

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LIBERATION SQUARE • How Shaheen Bagh offers a model for the future / POLITICS

The Garden of Shining Roses • Remembering my father, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi / LITERATURE

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