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.

38 Guruji’s Lie • The RSS and MS Golwalkar’s undeniable links to Nazism

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Made in Crisis • COVID-19 is leading to a rise in child marriages in India / Gender

Ground Reality • Cemetery workers struggle to keep up with Mumbai’s COVID-19 deaths / Communities

Sample Space • A dance group aims to bridge Afrobeats and Bollywood / Arts

Demolition Row • Karachi’s double standards over land encroachment / Communities

In Pieces • The Naga peace process faces another collapse / Politics

Failing the Grade • The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences’ approach to tribal people makes it no place for an anthropological conference / Education

Make Do and Mend • The Central Vista redevelopment reveals the lack of conservation studies and layering in India’s history writing / History

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Guruji’s Lie • The RSS and MS Golwalkar’s undeniable links to Nazism

COMMISSIONS OF UNTRUTH • The politics of India’s ad-hoc judicial inquiries

Battling the Wave • Healthcare efforts fighting the COVID-19 crisis in rural India

The Uses of Laughter • PG Wodehouse and the comic tradition

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