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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.
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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
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August 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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
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Read now: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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.
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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.
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.
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Read now: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
July 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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.
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Read now: caravanmagazine.in/magazine
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/...
June 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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/...
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...
Daniel Block writes, caravanmagazine.in/politics/tru...
June 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
Daniel Block writes, caravanmagazine.in/politics/tru...
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!
Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh.
COMING SOON!
June 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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!
Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh.
COMING SOON!
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!
Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh.
COMING SOON!
June 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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!
Expect sharp, incisive commentary that cannot be ignored, on The Caravan Long View, with Hartosh Singh Bal and Sushant Singh.
COMING SOON!
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
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
June 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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
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
Foggy Slope to Armageddon: The first South Asian crisis of the third nuclear age
Ankit Panda writes, caravanmagazine.in/conflict/the...
Ankit Panda writes, caravanmagazine.in/conflict/the...
June 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Foggy Slope to Armageddon: The first South Asian crisis of the third nuclear age
Ankit Panda writes, caravanmagazine.in/conflict/the...
Ankit Panda writes, caravanmagazine.in/conflict/the...
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...
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...
June 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
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...
June 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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.
June 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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.
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...
Read the entire story here: caravanmagazine.in/politics/lee...
June 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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...
Read the entire story here: caravanmagazine.in/politics/lee...
Reposted by The Caravan
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
June 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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
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.
June 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
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
June 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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
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...
caravanmagazine.in/security/air...
May 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
caravanmagazine.in/security/air...
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...
caravanmagazine.in/commentary/w...
May 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
caravanmagazine.in/commentary/w...
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.
May 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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.
The Archaeological Survey of India has asked the archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna to resubmit his Keezhadi excavation report.
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The Archaeological Survey of India has asked the archaeologist Amarnath Ramakrishna to resubmit his Keezhadi excavation report.
On 22 and 23 May 2018, in Thoothukudi, 13 people were killed by the Tamil Nadu police.
May 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
On 22 and 23 May 2018, in Thoothukudi, 13 people were killed by the Tamil Nadu police.
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.
May 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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.
Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was recently arrested over his social media posts related to ‘Operation Sindoor’.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ashoka University associate professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad was recently arrested over his social media posts related to ‘Operation Sindoor’.
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...
The post-war lives of Tamils in Sri Lanka:
caravanmagazine.in/conflict/pos...
May 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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...
The post-war lives of Tamils in Sri Lanka:
caravanmagazine.in/conflict/pos...
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...
A diary of destruction from the river to the sea
Maen Hammad's photo essay: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/gaz...
May 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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...
A diary of destruction from the river to the sea
Maen Hammad's photo essay: caravanmagazine.in/conflict/gaz...