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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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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

A man who used his influence to get away with the worst crimes surrenders and is shot dead in custody before he can reveal his secrets. PTI Photo

Aakar Patel | The realities of life in a lawless state

In lawless states like India, even the government does not know the law

14 July 2020 6:35 PM IST

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Aakar Patel | Indians must unite to face a huge threat to our nation

When the disease spreads rapidly in places without urban healthcare, what will come is not difficult to imagine

7 July 2020 5:50 PM IST

An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar

Aakar Patel | Mr PM, ignoring China's intrusion is the opposite of...

Satellite imagery confirms that the tent our men died trying to remove has now become a series of Chinese structures on...

30 Jun 2020 4:32 PM IST

adhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, BJP State President VD Sharma, BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and other leaders pay tribute to Jansangh founder leader Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, on his death anniversary, at BJP State headquarters in Bhopal. PTI Photo

Aakar Patel | As BJP's story evolves, will Bengal set tone for its...

The story of BJP, which began in Bengal with Mookerjee, is poised to return to that state very soon

23 Jun 2020 4:44 PM IST