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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

The world has been warning us for some years now to correct course and move back to the path of democracy and pluralism. (DC Image)

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 March 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Modi 2.0: There's a contradiction between the myth and...

On corruption, the BJP has been on the backfoot since January because of the Adani affair.

21 March 2023 12:45 AM IST

A worker screen prints flags of various political parties in Coimbatore. (Representational Image/PTI)

Aakar Patel | India's parties and politics of exclusion: How it hurts...

India is experimenting after 2014 with the same things that Pakistan tried and failed with in its opening decades

14 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the Raisina Dialogue, in New Delhi, Thursday, March 2, 2023.

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...

7 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

Mind you, many of these indicators come from those places where we want to be seen in a good light, such as Davos. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Why is India's rank on some global indices not...

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 IST

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani

Aakar Patel | Hindenburg saga: Why the markets reacted Can govt now...

Readers may not know that exposure of India's mutual funds to the Adani Group was always limited, with almost nobody...

21 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Lynchings and other atrocities: When news is no longer news

Aakar Patel | Lynchings and other atrocities: When news' is no longer...

Not many modern democracies have gone down this path before, setting it upon themselves to use the law and the media to...

14 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Does Centre have plan to fix India's problems? Why no...

We can debate about the role of the Opposition parties and the role of the media, but we have done that often

7 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

Children wear masks in school as Covid cases are in rise in the country. (AA Image/Deepak Deshpande)

Aakar Patel | Why getting our kids educated is a true sign of good...

Crores of Indian families have become poorer and can no longer afford private education for their children.

24 Jan 2023 12:27 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | What ideology of RSS stands for Why it often sets off...

The issue is whether the RSS is misunderstood and, particularly, whether the RSS' ideology is misunderstood

17 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our neighbours?

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our...

The World Bank says that trade between South Asian nations accounts for only five per cent of the region's total trade

9 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

We will need to write the doctrine and the strategy, and that will not be easy for a government that prefers certitude over doubt. (Representational Image/AFP)

Aakar Patel | India's Pakistan obsession: Can doctrine shift to focus...

Building intelligence capability now to counter our primary threat China will not be easy

3 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST