Karvaan India is India’s first not for profit digital news platform that intends to create a new sustainable model of independent journalism through small scale sustainable not-for-profit business models. This model intends to keep journalism away from big money bags and yet not make it dependable entirely on donations.
Editorially we have some unique initiatives with a focus on how to bring ground reporting back to the centre of journalism.
Our Founders
Asad Ashraf
Founding Editor
Asad Ashraf is the founding editor of Karvaan India based out of Delhi. He has worked with The Citizen.in as an Associate Editor apart from various stints at many other mainstream media organisations in India including DNA, TEHELKA, WION, STATESMAN, INDIA TODAY, and others. He also contributes to several foreign publications.
Tanzil Rahman
Co-Founder
Tanzil Rahman is a poet and an entrepreneur based in New Delhi. He is the co-founder of Karvaan and facilitates an Urdu learning program at Karvaan. Professionally he runs a consulting firm named Stepping Cloud and is an alumnus of AMU and IIM Bangalore.
Our Advisory
Anand Vivek Taneja
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic Traditions of South Asia at Vanderbuilt University.
Abhishek Majumdar
Playwright, theatre director and scenographer based out of Bangalore. Visiting associate professor of Arts in New York University Abu Dhabi
Max Kramer
Post-doctoral researcher at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.
Manish Sethi
Assistant Professor at Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Aditya Menon
Notable Indian Journalist
Ambarien Alqadar
Filmmaker, Screenwriter and Assistant Professor at The Rochester Institute of Technology Film and Animation Program