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India is a mob, Salman Rushdie said. (DC Photo: Deepak Deshpande)

Aakar Patel: It won't be back to normal on May 4; it will be a different world

How many parents will take a chance with the lives of their children by sending them to school on May 4?

21 Apr 2020 11:11 AM

The country's transportation system has been idle for over three weeks now. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Aakar Patel: India could not build medical capacity while on lockdown

This points to a lack of planning, strategy and execution. This is bad governance by definition.

15 Apr 2020 2:22 AM

People thrown out of livelihoods sit down for a meal at a soup kitchen set up by the Delhi government at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Aakar Patel: What will the new economy look like post Covid-19 crash?

The impact on the global economy may last for an entire generation

05 Apr 2020 5:47 PM

An Indian migrant worker's family is silhouetted as they make the journey to their village by foot, following a coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India on March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of New Delhi to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world's largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP)

Testing key to lockdown’s success, as fear of starvation looms

What will happen when the state apparatus needs to act beyond its capacity to cater to lakhs and crores of infected?

29 Mar 2020 7:23 AM

The Centre for the Monitoring of the Indian Economy says that corporate sales declined by 1.2 per cent in the October-December 2019-20 quarter (having declined by 2.8 per cent before that) and profits before tax shrunk by 10 per cent (compared to a shrinkage of 60 per cent in the previous quarter).

A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

01 Mar 2020 4:24 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Modi stands to gain if Trump returns to power

Donald Trump since becoming President has visited 20 countries of which the majority are in Europe.

23 Feb 2020 12:17 AM

Modi’s strategy to redesign India’s economy was Make in India, but that has flopped.

Acknowledge that Make in India has failed

Vietnam is 16 per cent and has gone up from 13 per cent when we launched Make in India. Sri Lanka is at 16 per cent.

16 Feb 2020 4:58 AM

The SC has not given Kashmiris the right to use the Internet though it made some pious noises about this in January.

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.

09 Feb 2020 4:53 AM

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 Narendra Modi outlook.

03 Feb 2020 1:35 AM

Let us turn to whether this abstention of the Opposition harms the anti-CAA movement.

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 behind it.

26 Jan 2020 2:17 AM

The agitation that preceded the vandalism was long and sustained but it was not like the current one and we will get to why that is so. (Photo: PTI)

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

From the first of April, the Narendra Modi government will send officials to all homes seeking details under the National Population Register, the first step of the National Register of Citizens.

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

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.

05 Jan 2020 2:56 AM

Both in India and Pakistan, there is a lack of awareness, generally speaking, about the nature of the divisions that produced Pakistan.

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 anti-Hindu.

29 Dec 2019 12:05 AM

In the civilised world, the government has to prove that an individual has committed a crime. In India, the individual must prove that she must not be jailed. So this is what the National Register of Citizens, which Amit Shah will implement across the country, is about and this is how it is being executed.

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 about.

22 Dec 2019 12:53 AM

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

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.

08 Dec 2019 7:11 AM

Indira Gandhi specifically added the word “secular” to the Constitution’s Preamble just in case it wasn’t clear. (Photo: PTI)

Indian majoritarianism subtle, but deadly

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

01 Dec 2019 7:17 AM

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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: File)

Maharashtra: Modi’s poll prowess fearsome

The Sena, the Congress and the NCP fear increasing irrelevance because of the BJP.

17 Nov 2019 12:03 AM

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