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advertisement published in The Caravan.@thecaravanindiafacebook.com/TheCaravanMagazine[email protected]editor Anant Nath
executive editor Vinod K Jose
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editorial interns
Abhinaya Harigovind, Gena Fazel
and SnehaTHE LEDE 8 Bhanu Sridharan is an independent journalist interested in writing about ecology and the
environment.
12 Qazi Wasif is a freelance journalist, based in Kashmir. He is interested in digital storytelling.
His work has been published in various local and national organisations.
14 Alexander Hurst is a journalist based in Paris. He has previously written for the New
Republic, The Daily Beast and France 24.
PERSPECTIVES 18 Narayana A is an associate professor with the school of policy and governance at Azim Premji
University, Bengaluru. He writes on issues of politics and governance in both Kannada and
English.
22 Kushanava Choudhury is the books editor at The Caravan, and the author of Epic City: The
World on the Streets of Calcutta.
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26 Daniel Block is a Delhi-based 2017-2018 Luce scholar working for The Caravan.
50 Sarah Eleazar is a Lahore-based journalist.
PHOTO ESSAY 64 Arko Datto is a photographer based in Kolkata. He won the Arles Prix Voies Off in 2017 and
the Gomma Grant in 2016. He works on visual projects of his own and also curates the works
of others. His interests include surveillance in the digital era, forced migration, techno-fascism
and disappearing islands.
Tanvi Mishra is the photo editor at The Caravan.
BOOKS 78 Ratik Asokan is an assistant editor at Art in America.
COVER Photo: Mark Blinch / Reuters
subscribe [email protected] website http://www.caravanmagazine.inCorrections:
Nikita Saxena and Atul Dev’s “No Land’s Man,” published in December 2017, mistakenly stated that PV
Kalyanasundaram, the owner of the news channel Polimer News, is a former leader of the Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam. While a PV Kalyanasundaram was earlier an organising secretary of the DMK, he is not the same
individual as the owner of Polimer News, and does not have any connection with the channel. The story also
mistakenly identified Partho Dasgupta, the CEO of the Broadcast Audience Research Council, as the author of an
email to the television journalist Rahul Shivshankar that was sent by Asti Misra, the vice president of business
development at the organisation. The story also misspelt the first name of Shweta Kothari, a former reporter with
Republic TV, as “Shwetha.”
Gopu Mohan’s “The ‘p’ word” misspelt the academic Rupa Viswanath’s last name as “Vishwanath.”
The Caravan regrets the errors.