The Caravan – August 2019

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AUGUST 2019 3 Founder:VishvaNath(1917-2002) Editor-in-Chief,Publisher&Printer:PareshNath law 18 ScorchedEarth Thesuffocation ...

4 THE CARAVAN thebookshelf 94 showcase 96 editor’s pick 98 the lede books business 84 Inside Story Rajat Gupta’s appeal to the c ...

I think that there will come a time when people will ask of the Indian media: What were you doing in those five years when a gov ...

6 THE CARAVAN contributors edited, printed & published by Paresh Nath on behalf of Delhi Press Patra Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. E-8 ...

Democracy just cannot survive without a free press. And certainly, a country like India, which is so diverse, can absolutely not ...

I think what we need a lot more of is free, thinking press. Press which is unafraid, press which actually explores and gets into ...

DIGITALPLANS DIGITAL+ PRINTPLANS UnlimitedaccesstoallstoriesonTheCaravan website(includingarchives) + Unlimitedaccesstoallstorie ...

10 THE CARAVAN / shruti janardhan On the afternoon of 29 November, when I visited Jaykumar Shankar’s small office in Delhi’s Pat ...

the lede AUGUST 2019 11 thoughphotographyhadtakenover theirroleofcapturinganexact renditionofwhattheeyecouldsee, themediumhadits ...

12 THE CARAVAN Shankarsaidthathisfamilyhasbeen hand-paintingphotographsforsix generations.Inthenineteenthcentury, theywerebasedo ...

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thelede 14 THE CARAVAN / nikhil latagajanan On a Sunday morning at the usually crowded Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai, the loud ...

the lede AUGUST 2019 15 Nadu, and began developing their own techniques. As they engaged in their weekly practice, people would ...

thelede 16 THE CARAVAN / sreejith sugunan On 20 March, a Bangladeshi migrant working at a small eatery in the coastal Jordanian ...

the lede AUGUST 2019 17 asa multilateralpartnershipwitha “renewed focus”onJordan’seconomictransformation,the agreementresultedin ...

18 THE CARAVAN PERSPECTIVES / aruna chandrasekhar At first light one day in July last year, Shivpal Bhagat packed his modest hol ...

perspectives AUGUST 2019 19 thousands of rupees. “Everything he was wearing was special.” The villagers “don’t have the money to ...