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

Starting from Scratch • How Mukunda Biswas pioneered Indian-made guitar brands/Arts

The Long Game • How the BJP is using its Hindi-belt playbook in West Bengal and succeeding /Politics

Mind Migration • Assam’s easy transition from ethnonationalism to Hindutva /Politics

Cracks Beneath the Surface • Vijayan must do more for the diverse social groups that brought the LDF to power in Kerala /Politics

Viral Images • The role of photography in documenting India’s COVID-19 disaster /Media

Final Cut • The end of the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal leaves filmmakers even more powerless before the censors/Film

CULPABLE CARANAGE • How the Modi government’s failure to act led to India’s COVID-19 catastrophe

LOSING GROUND • The uncounted costs of coastal erosion

BREAKING POINT • The second COVID-19 wave brings death and despair

Widening the Frame • The perils of a monolithic approach to OBC politics and identity /POLITICS

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