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

Open House • Finding discrimination-free housing for queer and marginalised communities in Delhi / Gender

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Unholy Orders • The Haridwar dharma sansad is a reflection of the RSS’s new strategy with sadhus / Religion

The Counterfeit • How counter-mobilisations attempted to undermine the farmers’ movement / Agriculture

“We Are Tribes” • Adivasi residents of Uttar Pradesh are demanding Scheduled Tribe status across the state / Communities

Conflicting Numbers • The curious case of recent government data on women’s labour-force participation / Economy

MODI’S DOCTORS • How four men botched India’s COVID response

In the Weeds • India’s uphill battle with Lantana camara

Gone Missing • The trauma of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh

HIS OWN JUDGE • Ranjan Gogoi’s desperate bid to set the record straight

No Country for the Poor • Wage suppression and the Indian state

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