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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Aakar Patel | Modi’s ‘Personal’ Diplomacy Hasn’t Worked… Can We Fix the Problem?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Modi’s ‘Personal’ Diplomacy Hasn’t Worked… Can We Fix...

    Close ties and grand gestures didn’t protect India’s interests

    2 Sept 2025 12:47 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Does India Really Have A Policy On Pakistan? Signals Appear ConfusingColumnists
    Aakar Patel | Does India Really Have A Policy On Pakistan? Signals...

    (1) India will talk to Pakistan. (2) India will not talk to Pakistan. (3) India will not talk to Pakistan so long as it...

    25 Aug 2025 11:13 PM IST

    Maharashtra Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis addresses a press conference at Pune Police Commissioners office, in Pune. (PTI)Columnists
    Aakar Patel| New Maharashtra Security Law Open To Abuse, Threatens...

    The term “Urban Naxalism” has no legal definition in Indian law. With its vague language, discriminatory focus, absence...

    18 Aug 2025 11:05 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Is India Paying Price Now For Playing America Against China?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Is India Paying Price Now For Playing America Against...

    On October 27, 2020, during the visit of US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, India signed the Basic Exchange and...

    11 Aug 2025 10:26 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | What US Junking Of A ‘Rules-based order’ Means For Rest Of The WorldColumnists
    Aakar Patel | What US Junking Of A ‘Rules-based order’ Means For Rest...

    This order, imposed by the United States and its European allies after the Second World War, seeks global cooperation...

    4 Aug 2025 9:35 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | What’s Behind BJP Shift Over Divorce & Inheritance Laws, And Other Policies?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | What’s Behind BJP Shift Over Divorce & Inheritance Laws,...

    One part of its opposition to divorce was the idea of eternal marriage. However, the material element was not letting...

    28 July 2025 9:52 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Why the BJP Did an About-Turn On the Free Market and Civil LibertiesColumnists
    Aakar Patel | Why the BJP Did an About-Turn On the Free Market and...

    A look at the BJP’s shift from socialist ideas to free-market support

    21 July 2025 11:02 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Will Zohran’s NY Triumph Offer US Democrats A Way To Battle Trump?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Will Zohran’s NY Triumph Offer US Democrats A Way To...

    The second important thing was the quality of Zohran’s campaign, which was conducted mostly on social media outlets...

    14 July 2025 10:51 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Integral Humanism is BJP’s Philosophy: But How Many Know What It Really Means?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Integral Humanism is BJP’s Philosophy: But How Many Know...

    It is generally thought that Bharatiya culture thinks of salvation of the soul and does not bother about body, mind and...

    7 July 2025 9:30 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Flashback 75 Years: Why Jan Sangh Was Formed by RSS, Why It Is Relevant TodayColumnists
    Aakar Patel | Flashback 75 Years: Why Jan Sangh Was Formed by RSS, Why...

    We marked the 50th anniversary of the Emergency a few days ago. Another anniversary, this time the 75th, went...

    1 July 2025 12:21 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Why Is the ‘Voice of Global South’ Being Silent on the Israel-Iran War?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Why Is the ‘Voice of Global South’ Being Silent on the...

    Big speeches at summits, but India often stays silent or abstains on tough issues

    23 Jun 2025 9:11 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Will a Transactional, Opportunistic Foreign Policy Doctrine Help India, or Damage It?Columnists
    Aakar Patel | Will a Transactional, Opportunistic Foreign Policy...

    The manifestoes of the BJP from the very beginning, in its Jan Sangh avatar in the 1950s, have little to offer in terms...

    16 Jun 2025 9:54 PM IST

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