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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

BJP's policies: What are the court's priorities?

The SC has not heard the matter of Kashmiri leaders being locked up without charge or trial.

9 Feb 2020 4:53 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Unlike Gujarat, Modi's focus is now on ideology, not economy

It appears to me that this focus on trying whatever was possible to push the economy has gone missing now from the...

3 Feb 2020 1:35 AM IST

One indication that the NRC and the CAA have so far not affected India-Bangladesh ties is that the border security forces of both nations held their 49th director- general level talks from December 25 to 30, 2019. Indias Border Security Forces (BSF) delegation was headed by its DG, Vivek Johri, and Border Guards Bangladeshs (BGB) delegation was headed by its DG, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Shafeenul Islam.

Anti-CAA protests about people, not parties

By any account, this is a huge success, especially against a government with a large majority and with a positive media...

26 Jan 2020 2:17 AM IST

$The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government \may affect the status\ of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. (Photo: PTI)$ Opinion

The protesters have a limited agenda roll back CAA

The Emergency's atrocities were committed mostly on Congress's political opponents and the media.

19 Jan 2020 5:14 AM IST

Supporters of the Bhim Army (above) take part in a march demanding the release of their leader Chandrasekhar Azad and protest against the amended Citizenship Act, NRC and NPR in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY)

Modi govt won't back off on CAA, NRC

The police is theoretically independent of the administration, but this is not true even in theory any longer.

12 Jan 2020 7:21 AM IST

People hold placards while protesting against the CAA and NRC at Rajghat, New Delhi, on Saturday.

CAA: World looks at India with distaste, dismay

The government does not even need to build all the concentration camps, called detention centres , around the country.

5 Jan 2020 2:56 AM IST

Muslims should urge a settlement of the Kashmir problem and thus improvement in Pakistan-India relations.

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

In Pakistan, and particularly after the military capture of the state by successive generals, the narrative became quite...

29 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Track record of NRC doesn't bode well

To my mind, it is incorrect for the government to believe that the protestors do not know what they are protesting...

22 Dec 2019 12:53 AM IST

Tens of thousands of protesters against the CAB descended on the streets of Assam, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent six-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord. (Photo: PTI)

Immigration policy of BJP has unwanted side-effects

The Citizenship Amendment Bill offers these people cover and will only specifically exclude Muslims.

15 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

Police at the site of the alleged encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinary on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Friday morning. (Photo: PTI)

Encounter in Hyderabad was a lynching

The encounter specialist is the policeman who is willing to do the murder at close quarters of unarmed human beings.

8 Dec 2019 7:11 AM IST

During the emergency , a euphemism for dictatorship, Indira Gandhi rushed through parliament the 42nd constitutional amendment when top Opposition leaders had been put in jail without trial in June 1975. (Photo: PTI)

Indian majoritarianism subtle, but deadly

The damage caused by constitutional majoritarianism is dependent on the individual.

1 Dec 2019 7:17 AM IST

The Centre has withdrawn the SPG cover of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, her children Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife. (Photo: Asian Age)

Modi should reinstate SPG cover to Gandhis

The government has said in Parliament that security to the Gandhis has not been withdrawn .

24 Nov 2019 6:58 AM IST