The Caravan — February 2018

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Founder: Vishva Nath (1917-2002)
Editor-in-Chief, Publisher & Printer: Paresh Nath

VOLUME 10 • ISSUE 2

FEBRUARY 2018

satire

22 A Modest Proposal

For preventing the children of poor people in

India from being a burden to their parents or

the economy, and for making them beneficial

to the public

kushanava choudhury

politics

18 Temple Run

Will Karnataka’s real, devout Hindus

please stand up?

narayana a

perspectives

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Model Minority

The hard questions facing the poster boy

of Canadian multiculturalism

daniel block

The young and stylish Jagmeet Singh is the first non-

white person ever to be elected the leader of a major

Canadian political party. While his impressive rise is a

testament to Canada’s multicultural ethos, Jagmeet is

controversial within India and has a testy relationship with

its government. His activism around India’s 1984 anti-

Sikh pogroms has exposed tensions between Punjabi and

diaspora Sikhs, and within the Sikh diaspora itself. In his

quest to become the Canadian prime minister, Jagmeet will

have to contend with his country’s turbulent relationship

with religious minorities, his party’s inconsistent electoral

fortunes and certain violent elements of Sikh politics.

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cover story / politics

religion

50 Bearing The Cross

Pakistan’s Christians struggle to keep the faith

sarah eleazar

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