The Caravan, Delhi

There’s a new Indian magazine called The Caravan, based in Delhi, that apparently aspires to be a South Asian version of the New Yorker: “to the point of hiring editors from the New York New Yorker,” says Graeme Wood.

There you can read Graeme’s STORY ON KURDISTAN, a place he especially loves to visit.

In fact, when my Bangladesh trip was cancelled from fear that the general strikes might trap me there and prevent me from attending AUC’s Presidential Inauguration (long since postponed by revolution), I needed to figure out where else to go on GulfAir, which offered me a change of destination but not a refund.

Graeme strongly recommended Kurdistan, and provided me with a pretty detailed list of which cities were perfectly safe, those in which I would require armed guards to prevent my being kidnapped, and those in which I would most likely come to harm even with guards.

I seriously toyed with the idea, but was again unwilling to go anywhere this time that might delay my dutiful return in time for the Inauguration. And then I was invited to the wedding in India and decided to go there again instead.

All this worry over getting back to Cairo in time for the Inauguration. It simply never occurred to me that Egypt and Bahrain would be far more problematic than either Bangladesh or Kurdistan.

By the way, many of Graeme’s dispatches to the website of The Atlantic will apparently be published in The Caravan, since The Atlantic as a monthly magazine doesn’t normally put those sorts of current-eventish stories in its print edition.