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

Mask Off • COVID-19 denial spreads to India

Tales of the Crypts • A British journal documents peoples’ history in South Asian cemeteries

Line of Narrative Control • The media and the government’s misdirections on China’s border incursions

Now as Farce • The end of the journalistic code of silence around the courts

Screen Test • The Hindu Right’s purge of progressive Tamil television newsrooms

Executive (and) Editor • How the media becomes an arm of the government

REVOLUTION MUTED • Why the Hindu-nationalist Jagran group runs the Urdu daily Inquilab

The Devoted • Zee Salaam’s project of creating good Muslims

The EDIT WARS • How Wikipedia earned the ire of the Hindu Right

THE FINE PRINT • NEW TRENDS IN GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING SPEND IN PRINT MEDIA

LONE STAR • A new biography attempts to combat the stigma that enshrouded Parveen Babi

THE BOOKSHELF

EDITOR’S PICK