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

Signs of Life • Folk tales help Rajasthan’s desert communities prepare for famine / Communities

The First Healers • Adivasi women in Jharkhand fight malaria and witchcraft with Hodopathy / Health

introducing Caravan Columns

Losing the Way • The Akali Dal no longer exists, and it may be necessary to reinvent it / Politics

Write Off • The suffocation of indigenous-script movements in the Northeast / Communities

Memories of Loss • A year after a summer of death, a COVID-19 survivor recalls trauma, helplessness and grief / Health

FALLING IN LINE • The National Investigation Agency’s loss of credibility

Hindu Rashtra OST • The Hindutva pop singers fuelling a politics of hate

The Widening Gulf • A personal reckoning with permanence, temporariness and spaces in between

Turning All History to Flesh • A biography of Agha Shahid Ali portrays the poet without paradox

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