The Caravan is a magazine

Magazine

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 of politics and culture in India. It is published by Delhi Press

Delhi Press

Delhi Press is one of India's largest magazine publishing houses. It publishes 30 magazines in 9 languages, and has a group readership of over 30 million. Delhi Press was established in 1939 by late Vishva Nath. Some of its most popular titles include Grihshobha, Woman's Era, Sarita, Saras Salil,...

. The Caravan was first launched in 1940, but was discontinued in 1988. It was re-launched in January 2010 as a narrative journalism magazine. Accomplished writers like Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha is an Indian writer whose research interests have included environmental, social, political and cricket history. He is also a columnist for the newspapers The Telegraph , and The Hindustan Times.-Early life and education:Born in Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India in 1958, Guha studied...

, Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra born 1969 in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh , is an Indian essayist and novelist. He is particularly notable for his book Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, a sociological study of small-town India, and his writing for the New York Review of Books.He graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce...

, William Dalrymple, Siddhartha Deb

Siddhartha Deb

Siddhartha Deb is an Indian author who was born in Meghalaya and grew up in Shillong in northeastern India. He was educated in India and at Columbia University, USA. His first novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely...

, Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto born, Fatima Murtaza Bhutto on 29 May 1982, is a Pakistani poet and writer. She is granddaughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the niece of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and daughter of Murtaza Bhutto....

, Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar is an Indian writer and journalist who is currently Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College.-Early Life and Education:...

, Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker

Deborah Baker is a biographer and essayist. She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and lives in Brooklyn, Calcutta, and Goa. She is the author of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India a recent biography on Allen Ginsberg which focuses on his time in India and of Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, a...

, and Basharat Peer have published in the magazine. The Caravan was re-launched by Vinod Jose

Vinod Jose

Vinod K. Jose, or Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, is an award winning journalist from India. He is currently the Deputy Editor of The Caravan published from New Delhi. In 2009, Jose was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch the company's 70-year old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988...

, the deputy-editor, and the managing editor is Delhi Press's Director Anant Nath. The editor-in-chief is Paresh Nath..