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WEBSilica dust from India’s industries is killing its workers. The scale of the silicosis crisis in India is staggering. But even more staggering than the scale of the crisis was how completely uncharted it is. Akhilesh Pandey.
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WEBLegal action. 2011. IIPM vs Delhi Press Patra Prakashan Pvt Ltd. The Caravan was the subject of a Rs 50 crore defamation suit by the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, an unaccredited business school, after it published a profile of IIPM’s owner, Arindham Chaudhuri (“Sweet Smell of Success: How Arindam Chaudhuri made a fortune off the aspirations—and insecurities—of India’s ...
How the military fell in line with Modi’s political project
WEBJan 31, 2024 · In this explosive mix of religion, politics and the state that India has been witnessing under Modi, the very public addition of the military is a new feature. Sushant Singh is a consulting editor at The Caravan. The military has become a willing accomplice in the Modi government’s political project. It benefits from the hyper nationalism we ...
The untangling of Samir and Vineet Jain’s empire | The Caravan
WEBDec 1, 2023 · On 20 May, Exchange4Media published a picture of Samir (Right) and Vineet Jain (Left) reportedly signing an agreement to formalise the Times Group split. Behind them, in the photograph, are Sivakumar Sundaram, recently appointed the conglomerate’s executive director and CEO of publishing; N Subramanian, …
Vigilantism and surveillance in Modi’s Gujarat | The Caravan
WEBFeb 13, 2024 · Christophe Jaffrelot is a contributing editor at The Caravan. He has authored several books including The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics and Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the rise of Ethnic Democracy.He is a senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris; a professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King’s India Institute, London; and a non-resident scholar ...
The smoke in parliament must be a recognition of, not a …
WEBDec 24, 2023 · “We hold human life sacred beyond words. We are neither perpetrators of dastardly outrages … nor are we ‘lunatics’ as … some others would have it believed,” Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt wrote in a statement responding to the public criticism of their throwing of smoke bombs and pamphlets in the …
Everything electoral bonds can buy | The Caravan
WEBMar 31, 2024 · Contracts, legal immunity, lasting policy changes: Everything electoral bonds can buy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the SemiconIndia summit 2023 in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar. Modi’s government decided to bear half the cost of Vedanta’s ultimately unsuccessful bid to produce semiconductors in Gujarat, after the corporation had donated ...
Bulldozer justice and the Indian state’s lawlessness
WEBJan 1, 2024 · THE INDIAN STATE has become defiantly lawless in pursuit of its open hostility against a section of its citizens. Since 2019, bulldozers have evolved into a marker of this celebratory state lawlessness. These now feverishly popular icons symbolise the muscular and unapologetically partisan exercise of state power, in both the discourse and practice of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
The UP Police and Sangh’s persecution of Christians
WEBTusha Mittal. 30 April, 2024. ON A FEBRUARY MORNING LAST YEAR, Sujit Yadav, a Christian pastor, drove across the wheat and potato fields of Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur district to the home of a congregant, in the village of Bhalwahi. Around six worshippers had gathered on the first floor, and more were to arrive soon, for a weekly prayer meeting.
How the media covered religious conversions in Modi’s first term
WEBDec 1, 2023 · ELECTION SEASON IN INDIA is the season of communal polarisation, and nothing divides as consistently as the “Hindu khatre mein hai”—Hindus are in danger—narrative, and nobody does it as efficiently as the Bharatiya Janata Party.In September, Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that Chhattisgarh had witnessed a “wave of religious conversions” under the Congress government of Bhupesh Baghel.