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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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Aakar Patel | Draw lessons from US, make voting in India better and...

It must be asked if we cannot further reform the process and also learn from practices that other nations follow that...

27 Oct 2020 6:40 PM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Bangladesh to overtake India? PR can't fix all our problems

This week has come news that in the current financial year, Bangladesh will overtake India in terms of per capita...

20 Oct 2020 1:35 AM IST

Indias services activity collapses as coronavirus palayses global economy. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | If you do not admit there's a crisis, you can't solve...

The problem is a major one, and it affects not just the Prime Minister but hundreds of millions of people across the...

12 Oct 2020 10:55 PM IST

Serum Institute of India said that trials of AstraZeneca Plcs COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country is ongoing and has not faced any issues. (Representative Image)

Aakar Patel | Several NGOs trying to uplift India might be forced to...

Today India invites foreign investment in arms and ammunition but it restricts investment in health, education and...

29 Sept 2020 12:39 PM IST

File image of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. (ANI)

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar's prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses

The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false

15 Sept 2020 5:09 PM IST

WB asks Railways not to send Shramik Special trains to state till May 26 in view of Cyclone Amphan. (PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Unlock' rules are illogical: If flights allowed, why not...

The Indian Railways is still by and large largely shut, and has been shut since the lockdown began

1 Sept 2020 5:34 PM IST

Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty leaves Enforcement Directorate (ED) office after being questioned in connection to the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, in Mumbai. PTI photo

Aakar Patel | Why are we so obsessed about a Bollywood actor's death?

Will the voter determine whether or not to vote for them based on a Bollywood event?

25 Aug 2020 5:19 PM IST

The world is interconnected and interdependent, as he has himself said so often and he repeated on Saturday

Aakar Patel | PM Modi's shopping list' had no substance, only words

In his speech, Modi made much about the freedom struggle though, of course, his Sangh Parivar had abstained from it

16 Aug 2020 2:23 AM IST

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Aakar Patel | India losing its Mahabharat against Covid?

India is the only nation, to repeat, that has consistently been going up in terms of number of cases from the start till...

11 Aug 2020 5:15 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | How the media, like politics, has become bigoted and...

The media space in India is funded primarily by advertising, The reader or viewer pays very little by way of...

5 Aug 2020 8:42 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

Aakar Patel | What's this govt good at, except announcements?

In the six months of this year, over 200 people have already been killed in violence in Kashmir

30 July 2020 6:30 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

Aakar Patel | Modiji the 2-minute decision-maker

PM Modi said in a very fine interview with Madhu Kishwar that he doesn't read files as he can't govern through academic...

21 July 2020 4:49 PM IST