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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

While Pakistan attempted to secularise, India has gone the other away. (Reresentational Image/ AP)

Aakar Patel | From secular to communal: The changing story of India &...

Today, there is no Muslim chief minister in India for the first time since 1947

7 Jun 2022 12:44 AM IST

Saffron flags lie outside a mosque a day after communal clashes in Jahangirpuri, a neighborhood in northwest Delhi, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo)

Aakar Patel | Failure of India's bureaucrats to stand up for what's...

It means that the entire bureaucracy is fine with the violence against minorities catalysed by the State

31 May 2022 12:31 AM IST

The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for...

Parliament has the right to repeal the Places of Worship Act, and indeed some people in the BJP have been asking for...

24 May 2022 7:14 AM IST

Two men were arrested for allegedly preparing fake Aadhaar and voter ID cards (Representational image)

Aakar Patel | Sedition not the only law that should go. There are many...

Once it dawns on the judiciary that some laws are out of place in a 21st century democracy, then problematic laws will...

17 May 2022 1:52 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Fixing issues, not PR alone, may improve India's image

To correct a problem, one has to first acknowledge a problem

10 May 2022 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Where the BJP has succeeded, over its 2 terms from 2014,...

It appears to be the case that the BJP has shifted its focus from the economy to its primary social agenda

3 May 2022 12:06 AM IST

Bajrang Dal members stage a protest against the recent killings of Hindus and vandalism of a Durga idol by miscreants in Bangladesh. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | If India turns into a Hindu Rashtra, what will it mean

o understand what changes can come here, we must first try to understand what the term Hindu Rashtra means

26 April 2022 1:41 AM IST

Several houses, religious places and shops were gutted in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night. (Representational Image/PTI)

Aakar Patel | India likely to stay on US list of concern' on human...

The world is not blind to what is happening in India today and it is uncomfortable with it

18 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

Enforcement Directorate. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Venal officers target citizens, keeping India as partly...

On civil liberties India has only scored 33 out of 60, while the United States has scored 51

12 April 2022 1:31 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 | Why divisive issues hold sway as real' ones ignored

The mass media in India is largely owned by corporate bodies

5 April 2022 12:41 AM IST

The Indian Army deployed over 50,000 soldiers in Ladakh to counter any threat from the Chinese Army. (Representational Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Of democracies, dictatorships & transparency

We should consider that India is not a dictatorship and should be using its natural strength as a democracy

29 March 2022 12:34 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Pegasus spying probe: Can the panel hold Modi govt to account?

Aakar Patel | Pegasus spying probe: Can the panel hold Modi govt to...

The citizens included journalists, key Opposition figures and a sexual harassment survivor

22 March 2022 1:08 AM IST