Jonathan Shainin is senior editor at The Caravan in Delhi.

"Working in an environment that's foreign, where you have to kind of think through a lot of things from the ground up ... I find it to be really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions that you have as an editor about what's interesting and what's not interesting, what's a good story and what's a bad story, what's the story that's been done a million times already. When you get out of a place that is your place, you have to kind of think through some things in a fresh way. And that can be really productive."

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Show notes and links:

1. @jonathanshainin
2. The Caravan
3. The Caravan on Longform
4. [8:00] The National
5. [13:00] India: A Million Mutinies Now (V.S. Naipul • 1991) [pdf]
6. [23:45] "Burger Queen" A profile of April Bloomfield.
   (Lauren Collins • New Yorker • Nov 2010)
7. [29:00] "Falling Man"A profile of Manmohan Singh.
   (Vinod K Jose • The Caravan • Oct 2011)
8. [29:00] "The Confidence Man" The crumbled cricket empire of Lalit Modi.
   (Samanth Subramanian • The Caravan • Mar 2011)
9. [40:30] Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo • 2012)
10. [41:00] "Notes from the Undercity" Review of Behind the Beautiful Forevers.
    (Jonathan Shainin • Bookforum • Feb 2012)
11. [49:30] "The Departed" The return home of Kashmir's disillusioned militants.
    (Mehboob Jeelani • The Caravan • Sep 2012)