The Caravan — February 2018

4 THE CARAVAN

the bookshelf 92

showcase 94

editor’s pick 98

the lede

books

arts

78 Out of Focus

What Raghubir Singh

did not see

ratik asokan

agriculture

12 Barren Land

A saffron farmer’s take on crop

failure in Kashmir

qazi wasif

communities

8 A Pack of Troubles

How Spiti is coping with its

stray-dog problem

bhanu sridharan

communities

14 Shifting Impressions

What the preservation of a Roma

identity entails

alexander hurst

photo essay / environment

64 The Great

Outdoors

The picnicking subculture

in eastern India

arko datto

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