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Keya Acharya is a freelance journalist based in Bangalore. She has spent three decades writing on the environment.
The Modi government behaves as if it is acting on behalf of its citizens, to give us the best information, but it is ...
The question of political transformation does not only beleaguer VD Savarkar, it turns out. In trying to answer this question apropos the Hindutva proponent, Arun Shourie provokes a similar question ...
Local men began disappearing along Arunachal's border with China, and questions were only raised when the two nuclear powers edged towards conflict.
What does Nita Ambani's rise reveal about Reliance? Watch the full episode to find out. You can also listen to The Caravan Baatcheet on Spotify. For The Caravan’s December 2024 issue, Amrita wrote an ...
It takes a lot for a military chief to go public with his grievances—especially under the Modi regime. That Air Chief Marshal AP Singh recently did so highlights the severity of the crisis in the ...
The author and activist Sudhir Dhawale was released on 24 January, after six years and seven months in jail. Dhawale, who is one of the founders of the anti-caste group Republican Panthers Jatiantachi ...
A COLONIAL ENTERPRISE, the Bombay Burmah Trading Company, Limited, was established in 1863. Colonial Burma was the world’s largest supplier of teak, and the BBTCL its largest exporter. It was a ...
ON 13 APRIL 1979, soldiers and civilians dance in the streets of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, after Yusuf Lule is sworn in as president, ending the eight-year dictatorship of Idi Amin. Lule chaired ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the Kumbh Mela as a “grand Mahayajna of Unity” that “has strengthened India’s national consciousness” for thousands of years—a blatantly exclusionary statement, ...