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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
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    Congress in 2017 must find its raison d'tre

    Few Indians have an incentive to mobilise for the Congress.

    26 March 2017 3:09 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a road show in Varanasi during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election campaign. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    360 degree: Numbers look good for Modi

    BJP's Uttar Pradesh win is thought to have made Narendra Modi's return to power in 2019 inevitable.

    19 March 2017 1:22 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump issued a revised travel ban order on Monday. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    After Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, time to fight back

    Mr Trump's border security policies, based on hatred and fear, are a direct confrontation to that movement.

    12 March 2017 2:22 AM IST

    Supreme Court of India. (Photo: File)Opinion
    It's time we support free thinking

    The BJP and its Hindutva groups are pushing the hard nationalism agenda.

    5 March 2017 1:12 AM IST

    Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The long, slow death of Congress

    The Congress has lost power in Delhi because it has been squeezed out of states.

    26 Feb 2017 3:35 AM IST

    Security personnel stands guard during Encounter with militants at Hajan of district Bandipora of North Kashmir. (PhoOpinion
    Note ban fails on the count of militancy

    Four soldiers, including a major, have been killed in recent days in Kashmir.

    19 Feb 2017 12:19 AM IST

    Uma Bharti (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Dishonouring the oath of office

    Uma Bharti, the water resources minister, claims she told the victims to watch as the offenders were hung upside down.

    12 Feb 2017 6:46 AM IST

    Uma Bharti (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Dishonouring the oath of office

    Uma Bharti, the water resources minister, claims she told the victims to watch as the offenders were hung upside down.

    12 Feb 2017 6:46 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    A nation's greatness lies in its fight for rights

    A judge put a stay on the Trump order and several other lawsuits will make it difficult for him to enforce it.

    5 Feb 2017 12:08 AM IST

    The Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) group said the grant of the compensation cannot be a substitute to the \prosecution of 1984 genocide perpetrators\.Opinion
    Does tareekh pe tareekh' apply to 1984?

    The team was formed on February 12, 2015 and began its work but was unable to file any fresh chargesheet.

    29 Jan 2017 4:19 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump signs the National Anthem during a National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral, in Washington. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    America first': A hollow promise

    Economic growth happens when there is an increase in output either through the number of workers or an improvement in...

    22 Jan 2017 5:07 AM IST

    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Of Twitter fatwas & emotional nationalism

    If Amazon's officials had secured their visas through proper paperwork, under what law was Ms Swaraj threatening to...

    15 Jan 2017 2:40 AM IST

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