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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/08/2025
The August issue—The Bihar Model and how revising electoral rolls could disenfranchise millions and threaten their citizenship; The continuing struggle of persons with disability for documentation; and more Read now: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 09/07/2025
On 9 July 1955, at a press conference in London’s Caxton Hall, the British philosopher Bertrand Russell releases a manifesto signed by 11 scientists and public intellectuals—including Albert Einstein, who had died three months earlier—warning about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/07/2025
The July issue—The RSS does not exist: mapping the structure of an unaccountable organisation; The cracks in Modi’s Act East policy; Four deaths and no answers in Kashmir’s Kulgam; The commodification of tribal lives in India; and more. Read now: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 30/06/2025
Archives | Read Abhay Regi's entire report of December 2022 on the Lawyers' demand for an Ambedkar statue at the Supreme Court caravanmagazine.in/communities/...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 28/06/2025
A United Front: What the Indian media gets wrong about Modi and Trump, and Modi and the world Daniel Block writes, caravanmagazine.in/politics/tru...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 22/06/2025
The values that define our journalism, now in a new show. Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh. COMING SOON!
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 22/06/2025
The values that define our journalism, now in a new show. Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh. COMING SOON!
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 21/06/2025
New Episode: Defence deals में Corruption का पर्दाफ़ाश In this episode, Host Vishnu Sharma talks to senior staff writer, Nileena M S, on the persistence of corrupt practices in India’s defence sector. Watch now: youtu.be/UUlQsdbpvm4
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 20/06/2025
Foggy Slope to Armageddon: The first South Asian crisis of the third nuclear age Ankit Panda writes, caravanmagazine.in/conflict/the...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 19/06/2025
Introducing Caravan’s open-access short reads! This week, read about the history of the Human Development project in an excerpt from David C Engerman’s Apostles of Development: caravanmagazine.in/economy/hist...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 13/06/2025
[1/10] Tailspin: Praful Patel and the fall of Air India Read: caravanmagazine.in/reportage/ta...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 08/06/2025
Archives | Both Vijay Mallya and Donald Trump have a similar style of transacting business. Both of them rely heavily on leveraging debt to buy out companies, and both have repeatedly relied on their respective governments to bail them out.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 03/06/2025
Editor's Pick | On 3 June 1959, Lee Kuan Yew, the general secretary of the People’s Action Party, is congratulated by supporters after winning the first general election in Singapore following the institution of self-government. Read the entire story here: caravanmagazine.in/politics/lee...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/06/2025
The June issue: Operation Sindoor and the delusion of deterrence; The India-Pakistan conflict sustains the political projects of their leaders; Custodial killings, detentions and demolitions haunt Kashmir after Pahalgam; and more: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 02/06/2025
Archives | The IPL was Nita Ambani’s first major foray into a public-facing role. It was also Reliance’s first venture in the world of sports, which the company has come to dominate.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/06/2025
The June issue: Operation Sindoor and the delusion of deterrence; The India-Pakistan conflict sustains the political projects of their leaders; Custodial killings, detentions and demolitions haunt Kashmir after Pahalgam; and more: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 30/05/2025
Read Sushant Singh's notes from our April issue, on how the air chief marshal’s warnings about the crisis in the IAF can no longer be ignored: caravanmagazine.in/security/air...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 27/05/2025
Archives | Imagine someone pouring a bag of rice on the floor and asking you to pick up every grain. Then imagine if, every time you spoke up about the injustice, another bag of rice was poured out and you were asked pick each grain up, again. caravanmagazine.in/commentary/w...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 27/05/2025
Archives | The GDP-obsessed analysis emphasises quantity over quality—to use a medical analogy, it focusses on treating an illness by exponentially increasing the dosage of a particular drug, when another medicine might improve a patient’s health.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 22/05/2025
The Archaeological Survey of India has asked the archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna to resubmit his Keezhadi excavation report.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 22/05/2025
On 22 and 23 May 2018, in Thoothukudi, 13 people were killed by the Tamil Nadu police.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 21/05/2025
Archives | The RSS and BJP’s ideology of gau raksha, and the entirety of sanyasi economics, can only be defeated through the philosophy of the country’s productive workers—not through standing by Brahminism like Tharoor does, feeling proud that he was born a Hindu from the feet of the Brahmin god.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 19/05/2025
Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was recently arrested over his social media posts related to ‘Operation Sindoor’.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 18/05/2025
Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day is marked by Sri Lankan Tamils on 18 May to honour those killed in the final stages of the civil war. It is named after the village where the last battle and massacre took place in 2009. The post-war lives of Tamils in Sri Lanka: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/pos...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 18/05/2025
Archives | Palestine: In Glory and Pain A diary of destruction from the river to the sea Maen Hammad's photo essay: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/gaz...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 17/05/2025
Sri Lanka’s Tamils pick up the pieces after the war. Read Rohini Mohan's report from 2012: caravanmagazine.in/reportage/de...
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Sri Lanka’s Tamils pick up the pieces after the war
In January 2009, a combined force of infantrymen, helicopter gunships and naval commandos captured Siva’s home district, the LTTE’s last military base of Mullaitivu.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 13/05/2025
Archives | The Hindu Right has long been harbouring frustrations against the encyclopedia. Over the years, those frustrations found a voice. Read Nishant Kauntia's report from 2020, on how Wikipedia earned the ire of the Hindu Right: caravanmagazine.in/media/wikipe...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 13/05/2025
Archives | Read how the world’s largest democracy treats the world’s most persecuted minority: caravanmagazine.in/politics/how...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 13/05/2025
Archives | Hindutva ideologues look at the ancient period of Indian history as a golden age marked by social harmony, devoid of any religious violence, and portray the middle ages as a phase of a reign of terror unleashed by Muslim rulers on Hindus.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 13/05/2025
The ED and CBI were investigating AgustaWestland kickbacks. They found Adani’s network. Nileena MS reports: caravanmagazine.in/crime/adani-...
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The ED and CBI were investigating AgustaWestland kickbacks. They found Adani’s network.
While the evidence so far stops short of directly implicating the Adani group in defence corruption cases, it is clear that the group created a complex financial routing network through Mauritius that...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 12/05/2025
If the Kashmir conflict is over, why are thousands of our people in jail: Mehbooba Mufti Read Shahid Tantray's interview with Mufti from 2023: caravanmagazine.in/interview/me...
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If the Kashmir conflict is over, why are thousands of our people in jail: Mehbooba Mufti
Mehbooba Mufti spoke about Jammu and Kashmir's history, politics, the people’s aspirations, the Kashmir issue, Article 370, the BJP, and the way forward.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 11/05/2025
Archives | The Modi government has manipulated chaos to its advantage, banning content at its discretion, while permitting the spread of misinformation when politically expedient.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 08/05/2025
#Adani | The ED and CBI were investigating AgustaWestland kickbacks. They found Adani’s network. Nileena MS reports: caravanmagazine.in/crime/adani-...
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The ED and CBI were investigating AgustaWestland kickbacks. They found Adani’s network.
While the evidence so far stops short of directly implicating the Adani group in defence corruption cases, it is clear that the group created a complex financial routing network through Mauritius that...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 07/05/2025
For all intents and purposes, the Balakot episode was a military failure for India. What it did achieve, however, was to give Modi the fillip he needed to comfortably secure a second term. Read our March 2025 cover story by Sushant Singh: caravanmagazine.in/security/bal...
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How the Modi government drew political mileage out of a military failure
The Balakot episode was a military failure for India. What it gave Narendra Modi the fillip he needed to comfortably secure a second term.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 06/05/2025
Breach of Faith: The persecution of Christians in Uttar Pradesh Watch now: youtu.be/ZLX9BYW1nnc Reporting by Shahid Tantray (@shahidtantray)
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 06/05/2025
Archives | “If you see anything that happens with the Ambanis, you will see everyone posting the same thing,” a senior fashion journalist said. When Isha Ambani appeared at the Met Gala in 2023 several media houses got calls from Reliance publicists asking them to post her photographs.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 03/05/2025
On 2 May 1996, a Central Bureau of Investigation team in Madras arrested the astrologer and mystic Nemichand Jain—popularly known as Chandraswami, seen here arriving for a hearing, the following month, at Delhi’s Patiala House court. Read the editor's pick: caravanmagazine.in/crime/chandr...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 03/05/2025
From February 2023, read how the Left used the BJP’s formula to discredit protests against Adani’s Kerala port. Report by Sindhu Nepolean: caravanmagazine.in/politics/how...
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Adani’s Kerala port: How the Left used BJP’s formula to discredit protests
The Left has framed the protests as anti-national and part of a foreign-funded conspiracy.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 03/05/2025
From our February 2025 issue, the discreet charm of Chandrababu Naidu. Read entire report: caravanmagazine.in/politics/dis...
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The discreet charm of Chandrababu Naidu
Far from embodying some new paradigm of far-sighted governance, the Andhra Pradesh chief minister has often revealed himself as a typical politician, with all the associated venality, duplicity and op...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 02/05/2025
Cover Story | Adani’s Millions in Mauritius: The ED and CBI were investigating AgustaWestland kickbacks. They found Adani’s network. Nileena MS reports: caravanmagazine.in/crime/adani-...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 02/05/2025
Breathing Space: Students protest to save the University of Hyderabad’s land and ideals Ryan Thomas and Nandhanaa PJ report: caravanmagazine.in/politics/stu...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/05/2025
The May issue—How investigations into AgustaWestland led to Adani; Kunal Kamra on how to make jokes in the face of state repression; The BJP’s long game in Tamil Nadu; Student protests at the University of Hyderabad test the Congress government; and more: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 01/05/2025
After Pahalgam, Modi has a chance to win over Kashmiris. Will he use it? Sushant Singh writes: caravanmagazine.in/politics/pah...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 23/04/2025
From March, Sushant Singh on how the Modi government drew political mileage out of a military failure: caravanmagazine.in/security/bal...
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How the Modi government drew political mileage out of a military failure
The Balakot episode was a military failure for India. What it gave Narendra Modi the fillip he needed to comfortably secure a second term.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 23/04/2025
Archives | Instead of a political solution, Ajit Doval’s police paradigm is bringing back the worst of the Indian state’s legacy in Kashmir. In doing so, the Modi government has laid the ground for a possible reversal to the 1990s, when militancy was at its peak. caravanmagazine.in/conflict/mod...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 17/04/2025
Archaeological Survey of India: History पर हावी संघ का agenda Watch the latest of Caravan Baatcheet Ep 36 now 👉 youtu.be/cK5l-P1PRkg
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 16/04/2025
Archaeological Survey of India: History पर हावी संघ का agenda Watch the full episode now 👉 youtu.be/cK5l-P1PRkg
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 14/04/2025
On the birth anniversary of BR Ambedkar, The Caravan brings you a selection of stories chronicling the long march of oppressed communities resisting Brahminical supremacy. caravanmagazine.in/tag/resistin...
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 11/04/2025
Today is Jotirao Phule's birth anniversary Read Karthik Malli's essay on Phule and the history of Marathi print culture: caravanmagazine.in/books/jotira...
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Jotirao Phule and the history of Marathi print culture
Phule’s pioneering work was shaped by the myriad possibilities offered by the medium and so cannot be viewed in isolation from the technology.
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The Caravan @caravanmagazine.in · 11/04/2025
The Caravan’s rejoinder to the Press Information Bureau on “Wild Dreams: Modi’s cheetah project is falling apart” caravanmagazine.in/environment/...
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