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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

Our recent history tells us that not only do we not promote fraternity, we promote its opposite. (Photo: AFP)

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Aakar Patel | Constitution is just forgotten: No fraternity' exists in...

We have lost our empathy for those who are unlike us and we do not even recognise that we have lost it

4 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

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Aakar Patel | India's health calamity has exposed flaws in Gujarat...

There is no example of a developed nation that had a Third World education and healthcare system

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

You cannot expect to be given a position on the UN Security Council, as India does, when the world sees what you are doing with distaste. (Photo: PTI)

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Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better

India's urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India's labour force is...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

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Aakar Patel | It's wrong to say Indians have right to choose faith

In 2003, under Narendra Modi, Gujarat passed a law that essentially removed all freedom of religion for Gujaratis

13 April 2021 1:21 AM IST

It appears that many Indians are not primarily voting on the basis of issues like the economy and their own well-being as measured by data provided by the government. (Photo: AFP)

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Aakar Patel | India headed in wrong direction: Is it too late to...

We have become as much of a religious state as Pakistan and this is a fact

30 March 2021 1:16 AM IST

Why is the Narendra Modi government sending letters to the states that they should have strict enforcement of crowd control when Mr Modi is himself holding giant rallies. (PTI)

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Aakar Patel | The unreality' of India today: Nothing makes sense any...

The second wave of Covid-19 had begun at the end of February, so the question is why spectators were allowed into the...

23 March 2021 7:55 AM IST