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The Opposition INDIA alliance has announced the names of 14 news television anchors whose programmes their spokespersons will boycott. (Image: Twitter; @2024_For_INDIA)

Aakar Patel | Opp. right not to be part of rigged game' with some...

The arguments against the boycott are various, including press freedom and the Emergency

20 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | What will special session take up? No one knows, not...

The Winter Session will begin in November, so it is not as if there is no other time for Parliament to meet. Why again...

12 Sept 2023 12:22 AM IST

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Fact & fiction: Harsher laws have not led to justice in...

Criminal law has the power to destroy lives and its use for this reason must be guarded, measured and calibrated

5 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

The Dragon capsules two men and two women are looking to spend three days going round and round the planet. (Photo: Twitter/@SpaceX)

Aakar Patel | Progress in space should excite us, lead to a better...

The ultimate aim of space programmes is not national glory, because at some point, the first to do this or that will be...

29 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

The one thing India can claim is that it does not prevent Muslims from holding high office. (Representional Image: AA)

Aakar Patel | From secularism to communalism, and back: Varied paths...

India has had Muslim Presidents but unlike Pakistan, India's Presidents are figureheads with no real authority.

22 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Security personnel stand guard after Haryana Roadways resumed services from the violence-hit Nuh district, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Riots' in India are different from mob fury in other...

The root of such violence is an underlying sentiment existing perennially in a large part of our society, and kept...

15 Aug 2023 12:07 AM IST

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrives at Parliament House complex during Monsoon Session, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. The Lok Sabha membership of Rahul Gandhi was restored on Monday, days after the Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a defamation case. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Shikha Mukerjee | Testing time lies ahead for the mother of democracy'

Disqualifying Rahul Gandhi within 26 hours of the Surat court's verdict was an act as much in indecent haste as it was...

8 Aug 2023 12:10 AM IST

Aadhaar is too important a topic to be addressed with quick fixes. (Representational Image/ PTI File)

Aakar Patel | Making Aadhaar compulsory for births, deaths to revive...

It doesn't make sense for the government to push through with the NPR exercise in these circumstances, through whatever...

1 Aug 2023 12:30 AM IST

People participate in a peace march organised by the Manipur Students Union in Imphal, Monday, July 24, 2023, (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | What's to gain by avoiding any problem What is there to...

The Prime Minister demoted the issue and signalled to the rest of the BJP and the pliant media not to speak about it.

25 July 2023 12:54 AM IST

India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla. (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | The new race in space: Can India emerge on top? What...

The winners in the race this time stand to make large amounts of money.

18 July 2023 12:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets as he addresses at SCO Summit via video conferencing, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Amritkaal' now upon us, but eco targets are far from...

Halfway into 2023, there is no further reference to this five-year plan.

11 July 2023 12:34 AM IST

National security adviser Ajit Doval will chair the meeting. (AP file image)

Aakar Patel | What's our actual national security doctrine? Can Doval...

To understand New India's national security doctrine, one has to look at what is called the Doval Doctrine .

4 July 2023 12:10 AM IST