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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; Modi’s Pakistan policy bears Golwalkar’s imprint; What the Indian media gets wrong about Modi and…

Open Access | Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, published by Profile Books, looks at how primary commodities are excavated and sold, as well as the roles played by management consultants, insurance brokers and so on. In…

#Books | Given the paucity of research, the handful of Muslim testimonial writings that have emerged recently provide valuable information as to what happens behind bars. Muslim prisoners’ writings in contemporary India Read Sharmila Puryakastha's essay: caravanmagazine.in/communities/re…

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen majority of dark matter and dark energy that silently influence the visible cosmos. A leading astrophysicist on supermassive black holes and her drive to do…

Archives | “Because this was a setting/ Hence, forget about telling anybody/ What happened in custody.” This stanzaic ending repeats throughout 'Horror Saga,' a prison memoir by Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui, published in 2024. Siddiqui was one of 13 people arrested in…

Archives | Hailing from Azamgarh and a resident of Mumbai’s Mira Road, where his father had bought a flat, Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui was a second-year student in a regional engineering college when he was first arrested for alleged activities with the Students Islamic Movement…

Archives | Malegaon residents near the Hamidiya Masjid and the Bada Kabarastan, on 9 September 2006, a day after two bomb blasts killed 31 people and injured over a hundred. In a confession statement, Swami Aseemanand alleged that in a meeting planning the blast, he suggested…

Modi’s public statements on Operation Sindoor give the impression that at least one of the war aims was to portray himself as a saviour of women and the avenger of their honour. “Terrorists could never have imagined, even in their wildest dreams, how formidable it would be to…

दिल्ली हाई कोर्ट ने अंतरराष्ट्रीय मुस्लिम प्रचारक संगठन तबलीगी जमात से जुड़े 70 भारतीय नागरिकों के खिलाफ सभी आरोपों को खारिज कर दिया है. इन पर COVID-19 महामारी के दौरान सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य नियमों का उल्लंघन करने और एक धार्मिक आयोजन में विदेशी प्रतिभागियों को ठहराने का आरोप लगाया…

बिजनौर में सूदखोरों और फ़ाइनेंस कंपनियों की धमकियों से तंग आकर मज़दूर परिजनों ने खाया ज़हर देश भर में ऐसी घटनाओं ने महामारी का रूप धारण कर लिया है. 19 जुलाई, 2025 को ऐसी ही घटना में, बिहार के नालंदा जिले के पावापुरी में एक परिवार के पांच सदस्यों ने सूदखोरों की धमकियों से तंग आकर…

The Caravan is Hiring! We are looking for a Video Editing Intern for our multi-media team. Deadline: 25 July 2025 To apply and for more details: caravanmagazine.in/pages/video-ed…

आर्काइव | 21 अगस्त 2020 को बॉम्बे हाई कोर्ट ने बड़े तीखे स्वर में फैसला सुनाते हुए तबलीगी जमात के सदस्यों पर आपराधिक मुकदमा चलाने के केंद्र सरकार के फैसले की भर्त्सना की. इससे एक महीने पहले केंद्रीय गृह मंत्रालय ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में एक हलफनामा दायर कर बताया था कि सरकार ने 2765…

Why the AISA–SFI alliance at JNU collapsed after nine years @_rishabgaur_ reports: caravanmagazine.in/politics/jnu-s…

Modi’s 18 June call to Trump was meant to rejig the narrative on how a ceasefire was achieved. Instead, Trump’s doubling down on his claims exposed the fatal flaw in Modi’s approach: the belief that personal rapport could substitute for institutional diplomacy. India’s refusal of…

In his first nationwide address after Operation Sindoor, Modi said, “Terrorists dared to wipe the sindoor”—vermilion, which signifies the purity and fidelity of married Hindu women—“from the foreheads of our sisters; that’s why India destroyed the very headquarters of terror.”…

The pace, intensity and breadth of Indian strikes far exceeded any precedents set in South Asia during the nuclear era, even as New Delhi appeared to steer clear of all Pakistani red lines. India’s deliberate bid to begin the walk down that curved slope was done with some level…

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The RSS ideologue's ideas on the formation of Pakistan, the status of Indian Muslims, and what the political leadership at the time should have done during the 1965 India–Pakistan war, are helpful to understand Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent policy towards Pakistan and the…

WASTE IS “a site of social conflict,” according to Federico Demaria. In The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India, he zooms in on two specific cases—shipbreaking at Alang, and Delhi’s municipal waste—to show how global capitalism externalises environmental costs.…

Since February, Buddhist have been protesting at Bodh Gaya to repeal the Bodh Gaya Temple Act. The protest is not just a battle against joint Hindu control over their most revered site but is symbolic of a struggle against Brahminical oppression that has lasted over two…