Covert is a fortnightly magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 whose first edition was published on 15 May 2008. Its founder is the well known journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 and columnist MJ Akbar. It is targeted at people who are very intellectual and want to keep up to date with the socio-political situation in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The current editor is Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa

Seema Mustafa is an Indian journalist. She is the former Political Editor and Delhi Bureau Chief of The Asian Age newspaper published in India. Her op-ed column appeared on Saturdays. These were syndicated to several newspapers, including The Deccan Chronicle from Bangalore, India and The Dawn...

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It is a news magazine that aims to empower its readers to identify the powerful so they can support and follow them.

M. J. Akbar said "The ideology of  the magazine is the ideology of my own profession - journalism. There should be space for every viewpoint as long as there is logic and rationale and it is not a rant."

External links

• COVERT magazine online- Incorrect link