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Aakar Patel
Aakar Patel | New building will not solve the key problems India’s Parliament faces
Like the Vande Bharat trains, it is a solution to problems that do not exist
30 May 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | Why the Congress won in K'taka, and the BJP held on to its vote share
There are two things the Congress itself says were important. The five schemes they promised and the Bharat Jodo Yatra
23 May 2023 12:00 AM
Aakar Patel | What was behind Cong K’taka win: The questions that need to be asked
An election is over in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that a ban on the Bajrang Dal was the same as an attack on Hanuman.
16 May 2023 12:44 AM
Aakar Patel | India’s foreign policy on Pak: No talking, and no handshakes
The story in Goa of course was the rude body language we apparently displayed to him, the apparent refusal to shake hands and so on
09 May 2023 12:08 AM
Aakar Patel | Of ‘sabka saath’ & ‘beti bachao’: The myth and reality in India
'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated political benefit
02 May 2023 7:44 AM
Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic dividend lacking
Not only have we not added new jobs, we have lost some of those we had.
25 Apr 2023 12:59 AM
Aakar Patel | Hindu Rashtra via reinterpretation of the Constitution?
Prof. Gopal’s thesis is that he sees a Hindu Rashtra coming to fruition by 2047 in two steps
18 Apr 2023 12:41 AM
Aakar Patel | ‘Fact-checking’ by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to curb dissent?
Visible action by the State, especially harsh and intimidatory action, against critics and dissenters acts as a deterrent
11 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Targeting ‘others’: How will it benefit India or brighten the nation’s future?
The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce, segregation and clothing
04 Apr 2023 12:20 AM
Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India’s rank so low?
We, in the thick of it, may not have noticed the water boiling and the temperature rising
28 Mar 2023 12:00 AM
Aakar Patel | Modi 2.0: There’s a contradiction between the myth and the reality…
On corruption, the BJP has been on the backfoot since January because of the Adani affair.
21 Mar 2023 12:45 AM
Aakar Patel | India’s parties and politics of exclusion: How it hurts growth
India is experimenting after 2014 with the same things that Pakistan tried and failed with in its opening decades
14 Mar 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | What kind of a ‘developed’ nation might we be by 2047
If we expect to grow faster, how and what are we doing or going to do that is different from what we have done since 2014?
07 Mar 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Why is India’s rank on some global indices not improving?
What is striking is that the media has no interest in reporting the background to which they give out the news
28 Feb 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Hindenburg saga: Why the markets reacted… Can govt now fix matters?
Readers may not know that exposure of India’s mutual funds to the Adani Group was always limited, with almost nobody willing to invest in it
21 Feb 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Lynchings and other atrocities: When ‘news’ is no longer news
Not many modern democracies have gone down this path before, setting it upon themselves to use the law and the media to target citizens
14 Feb 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Does Centre have plan to fix India’s problems? Why no accountability?
We can debate about the role of the Opposition parties and the role of the media, but we have done that often
07 Feb 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Why getting our kids educated is a true sign of good governance
Crores of Indian families have become poorer and can no longer afford private education for their children.
24 Jan 2023 12:27 AM
Aakar Patel | What ideology of RSS stands for… Why it often sets off social friction
The issue is whether the RSS is misunderstood and, particularly, whether the RSS’ ideology is misunderstood
17 Jan 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our neighbours?
The World Bank says that trade between South Asian nations accounts for only five per cent of the region’s total trade
09 Jan 2023 12:05 AM
Columns
Alas, President Droupadi Murmu too saw it fit to send a message on the occasion in praise of the Prime Minister
At the crux of this issue is the larger question of the national identities of the two nations and when and how they evolved.
The absence of an Indian ambassador in Doha is not merely a bureaucratic matter.
The basic issue before us is the mega-chaos, confusion and conflict in the nation’s capital due to the indigenous brand of “dyarchy”