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WEBSilica dust from India’s industries is killing its workers. The scale of the silicosis crisis in India is staggering. But even more staggering than the scale of the crisis was how completely uncharted it is. Akhilesh Pandey.
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WEBLegal action. 2011. IIPM vs Delhi Press Patra Prakashan Pvt Ltd. The Caravan was the subject of a Rs 50 crore defamation suit by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, an unaccredited business school, after it published a profile of IIPM’s owner, Arindham Chaudhuri (“Sweet Smell of Success: How Arindam Chaudhuri made a fortune off the aspirations—and insecurities—of India’s ...
Ten voices from Adivasi literature - The Caravan
WEBJan 15, 2021 · Ten voices from Adivasi literature. “People want Adivasi literature, not Adivasi writers,” a Koitur writer once told me. A quick web search for “Adivasi books” will show that most books about Adivasi communities have been and are still written by non-Adivasi, upper-caste writers. Adivasi—a term accepted by indigenous communities in ...
How the oldest Hindi literary magazine made space for outsiders
WEBNov 29, 2019 · The Intruders. In January this year, the first English issue of Hans was published, with translations of selected stories from their archive between 1986 and 1990. TANVI MISHRA FOR THE CARAVAN. The residents of the Jhuggi Jhopri Resettlement Colony in Delhi’s Savda Ghevra are not residents …
The Confidence Man - The Caravan
WEBMar 1, 2011 · EVERY SPRING, for the past three years—for the first three seasons of the Indian Premier League—Lalit Kumar Modi’s life would swing into a pattern of perpetual motion, his days filled with the kind of incessant activity that he promised to deliver to his audiences on the cricket field each evening.In the morning, if he hadn’t already flown out the previous night, Modi would eat ...
How the Miyawaki method can transform Indian cities
WEBJan 31, 2021 · The method involves planting two to four trees per square metre. Miyawaki forests grow in two to three years and are self-sustaining. They help lower temperatures in concrete heat islands, reduce air and noise pollution, attract local birds and insects, and create carbon sinks. “The method advocates planting of diverse native species, thereby ...
Praveen Swami’s legacy of “sources” journalism | The Caravan
WEBMar 7, 2019 · Praveen Swami is considered one of India's foremost journalists on the national security beat, even though his reportage relies heavily on unnamed sources. Dhruba Dutta. In the aftermath of the recent conflict between India and Pakistan, mainstream media in India has been awash with claims and counter-claims about the details of the Indian Air ...
How ANI Reports The Government's Version Of Truth
WEBMar 1, 2019 · How ANI reports the government’s version of truth. Praveen Donthi. 01 March, 2019. {ONE} PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI and the larger Hindu-nationalist ecosystem often distinguish between two categories of journalists. The first is that of “news traders”—media persons who are sponsored by Modi’s opponents in Lutyens’ Delhi and are ...
Akshay Kumar’s role as Hindutva’s poster boy | The Caravan
WEBFeb 1, 2021 · Akshay Kumar’s role as Hindutva’s poster boy. Akshay Kumar started out as an action hero, then morphed into a reliable comic performer and now, in his fifties, has come to be seen as Mr India, an enlightened nationalist hero. Aalok Soni / Hindustan Times. Bhavya Dore. 01 February, 2021. AKSHAY KUMAR loves India.
The inscrutable politics of Subramanian Swamy - The Caravan
WEBMay 1, 2012 · TO SEE SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY in his natural habitat is emphatically not to see him thus: in the heart of a throng of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers, on a January morning, in the town of Dhar, in Madhya Pradesh. Mere minutes after Swamy, the president—and, frankly, the totality—of the Janata Party, hopped out of an SUV, he was swallowed by the crowd. Somewhere within its crevices, he ...
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