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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Chinas Premier Li Keqiang has developed an index which measures real GDP growth through three indicators railway cargo volume, electricity consumption and loans disbursed. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | The middle class is not growing What does future hold...

    The government is run like a kingdom and the elected leader does not need to respond to questions or hold press...

    27 July 2021 2:28 AM IST

    No entity could receive foreign aid even as medicines or equipment to save lives, without being registered under the NGO law, called the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.Opinion
    Aakar Patel | To widen ease of biz in India, lift draconian curbs on...

    NGOs, or non-governmental organisations, are the third largest workforce in the United States

    20 July 2021 10:15 PM IST

    Stan Swamy. (Image: Twitter/@WilfredQuadros)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | The weak case that kept Stan Swamy in jail, where he...

    He was imprisoned denied bail in the Bhima Koregaon case

    13 July 2021 9:07 AM IST

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    Aakar Patel | As world changes rapidly, Indians stuck in the past, not...

    Newspaper column writers are not experts in any particular subject or field

    6 July 2021 7:04 AM IST

    Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | As world keeps growing, India's sinking, going back to...

    According to the government data, our economic growth began braking sharply before January 2018

    29 Jun 2021 7:28 AM IST

    A beneficiary receives her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a parking lot in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | No good news: It's difficult to be an optimist in India...

    India's economic growth has been falling for 42 months now, but the government has not spoken about why that is so and...

    22 Jun 2021 7:17 AM IST

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    Aakar Patel | Civil society & NGOs: Why they matter in run-up to 2024

    Adivasi resistance to the Indian State is not understood and it is not very widely covered in the media

    15 Jun 2021 7:19 AM IST

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    Aakar Patel | Modi's 15-point Vikas Yatra: How far has his govt really...

    The Vikas Yatra document does not refer to what the result of India climbing on the index was

    8 Jun 2021 7:21 AM IST

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, on May 28, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other...

    India under Narendra Modi has spent a lot of energy in drafting laws that go after minorities

    2 Jun 2021 7:20 AM IST

    Twitter is also considering allowing users to join communities devoted to topics via a feature seemingly similar to Facebooks \groups.\ (AP/Matt Rourke, File)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Why Twitter's action on BJP manipulation' is rattling...

    India is going the way of China, where the social media has to be in full compliance with the government's desire to...

    25 May 2021 7:34 AM IST

    A medical worker inoculates a policeman with a Covishield Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination camp, in Chennai. (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Govt needed to have grip' over Covid: That is what PM...

    The reason we don't have enough vaccines is that we did not order them at the right time because we didn't think we...

    18 May 2021 7:14 AM IST

    Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at Parwati Ghat as coronavirus cases surge in Jamshedpur, Monday, May 10, 2021. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Don't fudge Covid data, that'll make crisis worse

    The first reason why the government should come clean and say that its numbers are an undercount is public safety

    11 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

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