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

Curtain Call • A Zoom play on sexual violence emphasises complexity and public complicity

Plague Tales • An online journal chronicles stories of lockdown from around the world

Twists of Faith • The complicated history of Islam in Uzbekistan

Flight Response • Despite damning new revelations, the Rafale deal is more likely to be investigated in France than in India

Heads of the Family • Dattatreya Hosabale’s elevation as the RSS’s executive head is a triumph for Modi

Mental Pictures • How the blind can access the visual poetry of cinema

The Belly of the Beast • Inside India’s Hindu cattle-smuggling networks

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BULL RUN • The sprawling business network of an alleged cattle-smuggling kingpin

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The Price of Meat • The convenient contradictions in the BJP’s animal-protection politics

RESCUE EFFORT • An attempt to rehabilitate Hindu-nationalist leaders distorts history

Crossroads • The shadow of the First Amendment

ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS • Exploring public memory of the 1971 war in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India

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