The Caravan Club

The Caravan Club is an organisation representing caravanners in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and now represents nearly 1 million members.

History

The Club was founded in 1907 as The Caravan Club of Great Britain and Ireland. Its aim was to "... bring together those interested in van life as a pastime...to improve and supply suitable vans and other appliances...to develop the pastime by collecting, publishing and supplying to members, books and periodicals and lists of camp sites etc... to arrange camping grounds...".

The Club was not known as The Caravan Club until 1959 and celebrated its centenary on 14 June 2007.

Structure

The Caravan Club is a membership organisation. The Club is led by the Executive Committee, which airs policy issues with the Club Council. The council in turn is supported by the 10 Regional Councils. Their aim of the Regional Councils is to coordinate communications throughout The Club membership. Regional Councils provide a forum to discuss Club issues and to solve local and regional problems. Club members may also vote at the Annual Members Meeting.

The Caravan Club (Endell Street)

The Caravan Club was a gay and lesbian-friendly club in the basement of 81 Endell Street, London, that was the subject of a sensational court case in 1934, the records of which are in the British National Archives at Kew.

Background

The club opened on 14 July 1934. It advertised itself as "London's Greatest Bohemian Rendezvous said to be the most unconventional spot in town" – a code phrase for being gay-friendly – and promised "All night gaiety" and "Dancing to Charlie". It was run by Jack Neave (or Neaves) (aged 48) of Robert Street, London NW, known as "Iron Foot Jack" as he wore a metal device on his boot to lengthen his right leg, and was frequented by both gay men and lesbian women. Neave had previously run the Jamset and the Cosmopolitan (Wardour Street) in the early 1930s and was a former escapologist and "strongman", later described in court as a phrenologist. There was also a criminal element and the club was financed by William (Billy) Joseph Clifford Reynolds (aged 24) of Crowndale Road, London NW, who it later emerged had four criminal convictions. It was claimed that Reynolds had received an inheritance of £300 from his grandfather which enabled him to finance the club.

The Caravan

The Caravan is an English-language, long-form narrative journalism magazine covering politics and culture in India. The Caravan was first launched in 1940 and was discontinued in 1988. Delhi Press re-launched the magazine in January 2010 as "India’s only narrative journalism magazine."

History

The Caravan was first launched in 1940 by founder Vishwa Nath as Dehli Press's first magazine. The magazine lasted until 1988 when it was closed. The Caravan magazine was revived in 2009 and since its first issue in 2010 it is published from New Delhi, India, by Delhi Press.

The managing editor called The Caravan an "editorial success, not a business success". The audience for The Caravan was described as the "pop intelligentsia." The circulation has grown to 40,000 since its launch.

The magazine was issued legal notices in April 2013 regarding its May cover story about Attorney General Goolam Essaji Vahanvati but the top three editors decided to continue with its publication.

The magazine has been grappling with issues of delivery and its marketing chain has been facing problems of late. Many outlets that stocked the magazine earlier are no longer doing so and there have been cases of subscribers not receiving copies on a frequent basis.

Shamik Dasgupta

Shamik Dasgupta (born August 28, 1982 in Calcutta) is an Indian comic book writer. He has done work for Virgin Comics, specifically for Ramayan 3392 A.D. a series based on the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana and set in a distant future. He has also written a one shot horror graphic novel called Virulents.

He is the editor in chief of Arkin Comics, a popular 3D comic book in India which is custom made to feature the comic reader.

In 2012 he started working on a graphic novel named 'The Caravan' for Yali Dream Creations. This was released in 2013. The Caravan is a horror graphic novel written by Shamik Dasgupta. Dasgupta described it as "a classic horror/action/adventure in the trend of From Dusk till Dawn and 30 Days of Night copiously coated with spicy Bollywood masala." For the same publisher, he did the graphic novel adaptation 'Devi Chaudhurani', which was originally written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji

References

Caravan Club (The Inbetweeners)

Caravan Club is the fifth episode of the first series of The Inbetweeners. It first aired on 22 May 2008 on E4.

Plot

Jay invites the rest of the gang to come to a branch of the Caravan Club in Camber with his family, in order to prove that he has been successful with women. Jay promises his friends they will meet a girl and even gives Simon the number of a seemingly sexually active teenage girl- who he exchanges a number of text messages with.

Will, Simon and Neil arrive and their experience does not get off to a good start - as the boys are eating dinner in the Cartwrights’ caravan, Jay’s dad goes to the toilet in a loud and unhygienic manner.

Later, the boys head off to the main building in the complex for a disco. Will is offered sex by a goth girl but loses his chance when he decides to take his shoes off and slide across the hall floor during an attempt to become better acquainted with her. Supportively goaded by Jay, Simon approaches the aforementioned sexually active girl who Jay himself claims to have had sex with in the past(as well as her younger sister Susanne). However, when he leads her outside and takes his pants off, she is shocked and reveals she does not want sex, before running inside to tell her parents. Simon angrily confronts Jay and it becomes apparent Jay had lied about his own sexual experiences with her. Meanwhile, Will’s shoes have been stolen by a group of eight-year-olds, and he takes to getting one of them into a headlock to get them back. The boys then head off - albeit without Neil, who cannot be found - before Simon can get in trouble for his earlier stunt with the girl.