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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
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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

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

    It was only under Lal Krishna Advani, and then especially under Narendra Modi, that the BJP became the mass-based electoral force it has become, from the cadre-based party that was the Jan Sangh. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | BJP has never spelt out what parivartan' it hopes to...

    The Jan Sangh said that it would repeal preventive detention laws which it said were absolutely in contradiction to...

    16 March 2021 4:14 AM IST

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