1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (462+ words) The Caravan The FCRA and the crumbling of the development sector The Narendra Modi government has made new changes to the rules formulated under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, for the tenth time since it took power. In this new…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (454+ words) The Caravan The Cape and the Skullcap A comic's attempt to reinvent the Indian superhero THE JOKE that started it all was simple enough. A friend of Falah Faisal's, a stand-up comedian himself, used to do a bit on stage…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (567+ words) The Caravan The Dragon in the Room: Why Pakistan is no longer a standalone threat The Narendra Modi government marked the first anniversary of Operation Sindoor with a familiar mix of self-congratulation and narrative management, saturating the domestic information space…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (160+ words) Six months after 41 people died in a stampede during Vijay's rally in Karur, he is back on the campaign trail for the upcoming 2026 assembly election. Against the background of the long legacy of cinema stars turning into politicians, Tamil voters…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (634+ words) The Caravan The 2026 West Bengal assembly election explained West Bengal voted for its eighteenth legislative assembly in two phases, on 23 and 29 April, with Mamata Banerjee seeking a fourth consecutive term. The Bharatiya Janata Party has considered the state its top…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (345+ words) The Caravan "I want to be an autonomous woman," I kept saying to everybody" Romila Thapar on life, teaching and what led her to history In the historian Romila Thapar"s extensive new memoir, Just Being, published by Seagull Books,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (684+ words) The Caravan The 2026 Tamil Nadu assembly election explained Tamil Nadu voted for its seventeenth legislative assembly on 23 April, with Chief Minister MK Stalin seeking a second consecutive term in office, a feat no leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (339+ words) The Caravan BJP's growth in Kerala isn't unpreventable: CPI Kerala secretary Binoy Viswam Binoy Viswam, the state secretary of the Kerala unit of the Communist Party of India, leads the party into a challenging assembly election this month. The Left…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (223+ words) The Caravan The 2026 Kerala assembly election explained Kerala will elect its sixteenth legislative assembly on 9 April, with the ruling Left Democratic Front seeking an unprecedented third consecutive term in office. Pinarayi Vijayan is a year short of overtaking his Communist…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (425+ words) The Caravan Ashish Kothari: "We have to dream, with our feet rooted to the ground" Imagining radical alternatives to the current development model Ashish Kothari has spent half a century advocating for environmental causes and people's movements, such as the…...