Ajachi Chakrabarti

If I am your worst nightmare, you must sleep like a baby. Associate Editor at @thecaravanindia.

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The June 2026 issue--How Boeing and Air India's role in India's deadliest aviation disaster is being covered up; How the Dalit Panthers forced the RSS into changing its language on caste; What Vijay’s victory tells us about Tamil Nadu's politics today; The manipulation of voter rolls is undermining the legitimacy of India’s election; SIR exclusions in West Bengal were connected to AITC lead and Muslim population; and more

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India's improved ties with Israel are also pushing it on the wrong side of history.
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The February 2026 issue—An army chief’s unpublished memoir exposes how the Modi government spun the China border crisis; Why India enabled Israel’s genocide in Gaza; How Telugu cinema’s heroes turn violence against women into romance; A women-led union gives voice to India’s gig workers; Punjab’s new media suffers from old problems; The civic struggle against uranium mining in the West Khasi Hills.

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Cover Illustration by Akila Weerasinghe (@Akilaweera3)

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The December Media Issue—Mukesh Ambani barters Network18 for the PMO's blessing; Nita Ambani's play for the public eye; A Kashmiri journalist recounts his ordeal in jail; How politicians use influencers to escape accountability; and more.

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Press Council of India issues show-cause notice to The Caravan on Poonch story, betraying its own mandate to protect freedom of press.

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[Ajachi Chakrabarti @marcopolar]

@ddiamond Can't go wrong with Julia Donaldson. The Snail and the Whale is my current favourite, though Gruffalo and Room on the Broom are also great.

[Sudipto Mondal @mondalsudipto]

If doctors want stronger laws to protect them from the people. The people also need strong laws to protect them from doctors who are part of the most institutionally corrupt profession in the country. It's practically impossible to prosecute doctors for malpractice

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Pretomanid was developed by TB Alliance, which manufactures it in a Visakhapatnam factory and exports it to over seventy countries, where over forty thousand patients have benefited from BPaL.

India, however, remains the exception.

@VidyaKrishnan✍️
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In Aug issue of
@thecaravanindia
I report on one of Modi govt's most cruel policies: Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat, under which TB patients are being put up for adoption.

Experts call this "policide"- death by policy.
https://t.co/pIdPhGRI22

[Nileena MS @nileenams]

“It is clear that a racket was working in the university and they were involved in passing the failed students after taking money," a former Judge at the MP High Court Abhay Gohil wrote in his 2018 enquiry report on examination malpractice at NLIU Bhopal.

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The August issue—Amritanandamayi’s empire of secrets; The Modi government’s catastrophic failure to control tuberculosis; Madhya Pradesh judges named in exam fraud report continue to serve in district courts; Three books bear witness to the incarcertation of the BK-16; Navigating life as a Child of Deaf Adults; and more.

Read the issue: https://t.co/Qm43ateP0S

[Ajachi Chakrabarti @marcopolar]

In our April issue, Sagar explained why subcategorisation was a bad idea: https://t.co/KMx1ODjryU

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#BREAKING While allowing sub-classification of Scheduled Castes, four #SupremeCourt judges of the 7-judge bench, expressly hold that the 'creamy layer' among the Scheduled Caste must be excluded from reservations.

Justice Gavai : "State must evolve a policy to identify the creamy layer among the SC ST category and take them out of the fold of affirmative action. This is the only way to gain true equality."

Justice Vikram Nath endorses this view, saying, that the creamy layer principle as applicable to OBCs also applies to the SCs.

Justice Pankaj Mithal states that reservation has to be only limited to the first generation. If any member of the first generation has reached a higher status through reservation, then the 2nd generation should not be entitled to reservation, Justice Mithal adds.

Justice Satish Chandra Sharma agrees with the view of Justice Gavai that the issue of identification of creamy layer qua SC/STs ought to become a constitutional imperative for the State.

[ആതിര | Aathira @aathira_vk]

I profile Amritanandamayi for this month's Caravan cover story. It has taken months of effort to find and speak with sources, including former devotees whose experiences do not align with the carefully constructed image of the ever-loving Amma.
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Righting the Ship: What the INDIA should, or should not, learn from elections in Europe.

@marcopolar writes.
https://t.co/AwLZPMLT1j

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Stand against the retrenchment of 1800+ workers at Maruti Suzuki. Hundreds of automobile workers marched from Rajiv Chowk to DC Office, Gurgaon on July 18 to commemorate the unionisatiom struggle which led to 147 workers being jailed for five years and 13 given life sentences.

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Ripping the flag in half to reveal the Trump campaign logo is just too on the nose.

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1993 में हिंदू भीड़ द्वारा बाबरी मस्जिद को गिरा दिए जाने के बाद हुए विधान सभा चुनाव में सपा और बसपा गठबंधन ने राज्य की 422 में से 176 सीटें जीत कर सरकार बनाई थी.

पढ़िए @SunilKashyap0 की रिपोर्ट:

'विजेता: उत्तर प्रदेश में समाजवादी पार्टी की जीत का गणित'
https://t.co/G6JyN5gk8i

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[Ajachi Chakrabarti @marcopolar]

@AyoCaesar The neoliberal ghouls who'd replace him might be even more unelectable. Biden's big appeal was that he could speak to the white working class without espousing any sort of radical politics.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

as ANI fights wikipedia in court!, here is a look at the best piece ever done on ANI

https://t.co/0DBepAWoqf