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

Bitter Ash • The health crisis caused by pollution in Uttar Pradesh’s sugar mills / Environment

Guardian Angels • Welfare organisations help Kashmiris navigate the COVID-19 lockdown / Communities

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Moving Goalposts • The Modi government’s shifting position on Pegasus / Politics

Defence System • France’s entrenched interests stack the odds against the new Rafale investigation / Politics

Sister Outsider • The response of some Indian Muslims to the Taliban is both anti-women and anti-democratic / Gender

“The Indian government is trying to sabotage everything” • VS Atem on the deadlock in the Naga peace process / Politics

SUBSTANCE AND SHADOWS • The Punjab government’s sham war on drugs

UNHEALTHY SECRETS • Why the PM CARES fund must be investigated

FIGHT AND FLIGHT • The challenges of being queer in Palestine

Rooms to Sleep in • The complexities of contemporary queer politics

A Question of Belonging • Reading Jayanta Mahapatra’s self portrait

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