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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

Dharam Sansad was held at Ved Niketan Dham in Haridwar for three days from December 16 to 19. (Photo: Screengrab)

Aakar Patel | Listen to what the world says: Step back from the...

It is not safe to be dismissive about words like genocide, but unfortunately, that is what India is doing today

25 Jan 2022 12:06 AM IST

Indian army soldiers patrol near the Line of Control (LoC). (PTI file photo)

Aakar Patel | Pakistan's new security policy: How should India...

The policy articulates what it sees as Pakistan's vision and priorities and provides a detailed implementation framework

19 Jan 2022 2:46 AM IST

It is accurate to say that India has quite consciously been led to the stage today when communalism has completely infected the nation. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Aakar Patel | Are we ready to believe things are not going well with...

A course can be corrected only if we accept that we are headed in the wrong direction

11 Jan 2022 2:15 AM IST

Kashmiri children look from behind a closed window of their house during a counterinsurgency operation on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. (AP)

Aakar Patel | Kashmirification & Gujaratification of India is here...

If we observe the events of the recent past, it appears he is right

4 Jan 2022 2:48 AM IST

The pandemic will itself continue, but we can hope that it does not do the damage that it did either in 2020 or in 2021. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Aakar Patel | As 2022 looms, we can only hope for some easing of pain

Perhaps we should begin from the place that has become frozen in time: Kashmir

28 Dec 2021 1:44 AM IST

The court, after hearing the submissions, granted bail to the accused, saying his detention will serve no purpose as the probe into the matter is completed and nothing has to be recovered from him. (Representational image)

Aakar Patel | New law likely to spell trouble for Christians in...

In the first two weeks of December 2021 alone, attacks against Christians were reported in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and...

21 Dec 2021 2:02 AM IST

The key provision of AFSPA is the sweeping empowerment of individuals from the police and the military and the paramilitary forces to open fire if he is of the opinion that it is necessary so to do for the maintenance of public order. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Aakar Patel | Should AFSPA be repealed, or stay? The case: For and...

Later this month the Nagaland Assembly will convene a special session to demand that the law be suspended in that state

14 Dec 2021 3:01 AM IST

Twenty-three crore Indians fell into poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic and the unemployment rate, which had already reached a post-1947 high of six per cent by 2018, remains there. (Representational Image. PTI)

Aakar Patel | From Dec 2019 to Dec 2021: A time of trouble, problems...

The state today has no democracy and is the only Indian state/Union territory without an elected government

7 Dec 2021 1:57 AM IST

Bangladesh has managed to improve manufacturings share of GDP in recent years from 16 per cent to 20 per cent while Indias has fallen from 15 per cent to 12 per cent since 2014. (Representational Image. DC File Image)

Aakar Patel | South Asia will be compelled to change as world gets a...

In terms of their Human Development Index, India is ranked 133rd in the world, Bangladesh at 135th and Pakistan at 154th

30 Nov 2021 3:11 AM IST

The compulsory use of Aadhaar to access subsidised grain has meant that many of the poor cannot get their entitlement because connectivity is bad or their fingerprints have been eroded from labour and differ from the record. Representational Image. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Why farm law recall miffed some in middle class, media

What some of us think are strong, bold and firm decisions are cruel, harsh and unwanted for others

22 Nov 2021 3:26 AM IST

Aakar Patel | If Indians focus on trivia, ignore hard reality, the...

On every meaningful measure, life for Indians compares poorly with those in other democracies

16 Nov 2021 11:42 AM IST

Changing faith or propagating one's religion: Is it a right or a crime...

India allows Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist dalits access to Scheduled Caste reservations but not Christian and Muslim dalits

2 Nov 2021 12:06 AM IST