January 2023

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Contributors
THE LEDE 10 Shradha Triveni is an editorial intern at The Caravan. 12 Alessia Manzi is a freelance journalist based in Italy. Her work has appeared in El País, Die Tageszeitung and Balkan Insight, among others. She covers the environment, society, mi
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EDITOR Anant Nath EXECUTIVE EDITOR Vinod K Jose POLITICAL EDITOR Hartosh Singh Bal SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Puja Sen BOOKS EDITOR Maya Palit CREATIVE DIRECTOR Sukruti Anah Staneley ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ajachi Chakrabarti WEB EDITOR Surabhi Kanga ASSISTANT
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Sculpting Lives
Daril Atkins sculpts parts of the human body. The life of this 77-year-old sculptor-turned-anaplastologist is marked by giving helping hands to people, literally. “I am a trained sculptor,” he told me at his lab, DA Anaplastology India LLP, in Bengal
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Sea of Troubles
“I was just a child when I left Mali,” Mamadou said. “I travelled a long way arriving in Libya, but after the fall of Gaddafi, the socio-political situation in the country…” His voice trailed off, as he stirred the remaining sugar at the bottom of hi
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True Media Needs True Allies.
I think what we need a lot more of is free, thinking press. Press which is unafraid, press which actually explores and gets into the nitty-gritties, which isn’t just there as one of news but continues to explore and dig deep, and is unafraid to do so
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Green Herring
The questions are about China. The answers are about Pakistan. That seems to be the case when it comes to the Narendra Modi government’s designs for India’s security challenges. Even as the Chinese army clashed with Indian soldiers at Tawang’s Yangts
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Big Chief, Little Country
The Bharatiya Janata Party foregrounded the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the recent Gujarat assembly election and swept aside the opposition. It fought the Delhi municipal election in his name and came close to winning. The oversized imag
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Code of Silence
A recent groundswell of protests to demand the Sarna code, a separate religious classification in the census for Adivasis, has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its affiliates in a fix. In a special session held in November 2020, the Jharkhand Asse
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Tightrope Act
A GROUP OF AROUND TEN PEOPLE arrived outside the Hyatt Regency in Ahmedabad early in the morning of 14 February 2016. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” and “Shah Rukh Khan hai hai,” they threw stones into the hotel’s parking lot, shattering the windshield of a
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introducing Caravan Columns
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11,299 Days
ARPUTHAM HAD WAITED for this moment for 11,299 days. A large crowd had gathered at her house—lawyers, journalists, local political activists and friends. Throughout the morning, more reporters came flooding into the small railway town of Jolarpettai,
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Room And Board
IN SEPTEMBER 2018, a member of the skateboarding community in Gangtok invited me to photograph an event. That was my first glimpse into this small fraternity and the skateboarding subculture in the city. In the following months, I started getting mor
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The World of Bibhutibhushan
“DON’T YOU LIVE IN GHATSILA? You were born here, weren’t you?” Sushanto Seet asked me, visibly exasperated. Seet is the organising secretary of the Bibhuti Smriti Sansad—a cultural organisation based in Ghatsila, in the Purbi Singhbhum district of Jh
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The Bookshelf
A book that confronts the disinformation in the official narrative after the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir in 2019, looking closely at how the past three years have impacted the lives of Kashmiris. HARPER COLLINS, ₹699, 408 PAGES A memoir that
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Editor’s Pick
ON 13 JANUARY 1898, the newspaper L’Aurore published an open letter by the novelist Émile Zola to the French president, Félix Faure. Titled “J’accuse…!”—I accuse—the article deplored the antisemitism that had led to the artillery officer Alfred Dreyf

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