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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Pakistans Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers Meeting, in Goa, Friday, May 5, 2023. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | India's foreign policy on Pak: No talking, and no...

The story in Goa of course was the rude body language we apparently displayed to him, the apparent refusal to shake...

9 May 2023 12:08 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme (Wikimedia)

Aakar Patel | Of sabka saath' & beti bachao': The myth and reality in...

'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated...

2 May 2023 7:44 AM IST

For those who are not drunk on the magic of numbers, this massive over-population can only warn of a Malthusian disaster looming ahead. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic...

Not only have we not added new jobs, we have lost some of those we had.

25 April 2023 12:59 AM IST

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

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 April 2023 12:41 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Fact-checking' by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to...

Visible action by the State, especially harsh and intimidatory action, against critics and dissenters acts as a...

11 April 2023 12:05 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 | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce,...

4 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

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