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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India's spooks think

What this ex-head of RAW, who was also one of the IB's senior-most officers has written is astonishing

27 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Other parties are divisive because of their propensity towards casteism but, and this is the thinking, the BJP is above caste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS' Hindutva politics in...

The fact is that Hindutva wants Indians to worship caste, but it doesn't want them to talk about it

20 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Demystifying the G-20 presidency: What it means for...

There will be no end to the claim that this is India's moment to lead the world, or at least lead it till the next...

13 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same...

There is a belief that Sardar Patel would have sorted out Pakistan and we would never have had the Kashmir problem

6 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

File photo of BJP workers welcoming PM Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | After decisive win in 2019, has govt run out of steam?

The listlessness shows in endless political campaigning conducted without much reference to performance, only to...

29 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST