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

THE CARAVAN

Rocks of Ages • Jharkhand’s millennia-old megalithic sites are under threat / Communities

Time Lapses • A photo exhibition explores Bengaluru’s many transformations / Art

High and Dry • Wular’s troubled fisherfolk reckon with a dying lake / Environment

Shifting Sands • The struggle to save the Thar’s old ways of life / Environment

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Fights of Fancy • The Modi government profits by imposing unmanageable expectations on the farmer protests / Politics

Caste Quandary • The social profile of Hindu nationalism and its unease over reservations / Politics

Battered • Kohli, Modi and the costs of authoritarian leadership / Sports

Atmospheric Control • India’s stance at climate negotiations is beginning to feel like a smokescreen / Environment

Losing Count • The discredited excuses for dodging a caste census / Caste

Speaking from the Margins • The demonisation of Kaikeyi and Surpanakha

The Sun and the Moon • The ethnic histories of Ram and Krishna

A Thousand Flowers Bloom • The many Muslim versions of the Ramayana

The Protector • Ravan was a Gond king

Blood and Ink • A reporter’s account of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence

Evergreen Revolution • Why Charan Singh’s advocacy for agrarian interests still endures

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