December 2020

The Caravan

A journal of politics and culture

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EDITOR ANANT NATH EXECUTIVE EDITOR VINOD K JOSE POLITICAL EDITOR HARTOSH SINGH BAL SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR ROMAN GAUTAM DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR PRAVEEN DONTHI BOOKS EDITOR MAYA PALIT CREATIVE DIRECTOR TANVI MISHRA SENIOR ASSISTANT EDITORS MARTAND KAU
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Mask Off
“I have never worn a mask,” Jagdish Chandra told me, in November. The 51-year-old businessman from Kolkata said that he had taken six flights since September and that he carries documents that supported his right to not wear a mask while travelling.
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Tales Of The Crypts
In 2013, the autumn edition of Chowkidar, a journal published by the British Association of Cemeteries in South Asia, featured the story of one of its readers, Edward Mitchell. Mitchell knew his grandparents were buried in Poona’s St Sepulchre Cemete
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Line of Narrative Control
On 2 October, images of a war memorial in eastern Ladakh started appearing on the social-media accounts of some journalists. The memorial, “Gallants of Galwan,” was built for the 20 Indian soldiers who died in a violent physical clash with the Chines
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Now as Farce
Just four years ago, though it feels longer, towards the end of TS Thakur’s tenure as the Chief Justice of India, I interviewed a retired judge about the state of the Supreme Court. We started talking in the middle of the afternoon, and when I left t
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Screen Test
When I spoke to a senior staffer of News18 Tamil Nadu in October, I was told the entire organisation was crumbling. Numerous staff members had been forced to leave, the tone of the channel’s coverage had changed sharply over the last two months and a
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Executive (and) Editor
{1} AS IT BECAME CLEAR that Donald Trump had been ousted and Joe Biden was to be the next president of the United States, Anant Goenka tweeted, I hope after Biden’s victory, American news media takes time to introspect its partisan ways. They must m
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Revolution Muted
ON THE NIGHT OF 23 FEBRUARY THIS YEAR, Delhi was on the brink of large-scale communal violence. For several months, peaceful protests had been taking place against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens. The pr
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The Devoted
ON 5 AUGUST, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Imran Khan—not to be confused with Pakistan’s prime minister—was most elated. For Khan, an anchor for the Urdu news and devotional-content channel Zee
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The EDIT WARS
“IT MIGHT BE AWKWARD, but please don’t scroll past this.” In July this year, the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched a donation campaign in India. A banner pinned at the top of every Wikipedia article noted that fewer than two percent of users m
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The Fine Print
In the December 2014 issue of The Caravan, we took a deep dive into two repositories of data that capture different dimensions of the media landscape. The first was the Department of Advertising and Visual Publicity, which oversees the central govern
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Lone Star
IN EARLY 1984 , the actress Parveen Babi announced her retirement from Bollywood in blazingly public fashion: she wrote about it in a cover story for the Illustrated Weekly of India. Titled “The Confessions of Parveen Babi,” the essay was diaristic a
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The Bookshelf
A weather forecaster tries to stay sane in the face of an impending storm, a group of friends is arrested for their covert radio operations around India’s independence, a woman leaves her husband and joins a circus—these are some of the characters in
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Editor’s Pick
ON 15 DECEMBER 1947 , the artists FN Souza, MF Husain, SH Raza, HA Gade, KH Ara and SK Bakre established the Progressive Artists’ Group in Bombay. The collective’s name was inspired by that of the Progressive Writers’ Association, which had been foun

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