In November 2022, a confrontation over podu—shifting cultivation practised on forest land—between forest officials and Gutti Koya Adivasis in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district ended with the ...

ON 2 MAY 1996, a Central Bureau of Investigation team in Madras arrested the astrologer and mystic Nemichand Jain—popularly known as Chandraswami, seen here arriving for a hearing, the following month ...

On 23 March, the standup comedian Kunal Kamra posted Naya Bharat, a set about contemporary politics he had recorded at Mumbai’s The Habitat in January, on his YouTube channel. Within hours, cadre from ...

Lasting stability in Kashmir hinges on political inclusion, not suppression. More crackdowns and more alienation in Kashmir may satisfy Modi’s core support base, but it ensures only cyclical violence ...

SOMETIME IN THE MIDDLE OF 2018, a team from the Central Bureau of Investigation touched down at the airport near Port Louis, the picturesque capital of the Indian Ocean tax haven of Mauritius. It had ...

MUSHROOM ROCK HAS probably witnessed many changes to its surrounding environment in its roughly 2-billion-year history. But 30 March 2025 was perhaps the first time it bore witness to a brutal police ...

Ahead of the 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, at a high-profile press conference in Chennai on 11 April, the union home minister Amit Shah formally announced the revival of the Bharatiya Janata ...

In Father Tongue, Motherland, published by Penguin Random House India, Peggy Mohan reflects on the development of modern languages in the subcontinent, asking questions about when they might have ...

THE CAMPUS NOVEL has caught up and discovered caste, now a box to be dutifully ticked. To sate the current appetite for representation, contemporary novelists feel compelled to invoke it, and the ...

When Jenené, our portrait of the Chagres River, was being published, in 2023, Panama experienced its worst drought in over a century. My collaborator, Andrea Lino, and I were aware that the water ...

In this episode, host Vishnu Sharma speaks with Sushant Singh, The Caravan’s consulting editor, about the 22 April attack in Pahalgam, Kashmir. On that day, 26 civilians were killed at a tourist spot ...