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Aakar Patel | What’s to gain by avoiding any problem… What is there to lose?
The Prime Minister demoted the issue and signalled to the rest of the BJP and the pliant media not to speak about it.
25 Jul 2023 12:54 AM
Aakar Patel | The new race in space: Can India emerge on top? What lies next?
The winners in the race this time stand to make large amounts of money.
18 Jul 2023 12:30 AM
Aakar Patel | ‘Amritkaal’ now upon us, but eco targets are far from being met!
Halfway into 2023, there is no further reference to this five-year plan.
11 Jul 2023 12:34 AM
Aakar Patel | What’s our actual national security doctrine? Can Doval spell it out?
To understand New India’s national security doctrine, one has to look at what is called the “Doval Doctrine”.
04 Jul 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | Why the BJP is pushing hard for a Uniform Civil Code now
It’s not only one community that will see its personal laws on inheritance, marriage, divorce change, but all communities if there is a UCC
27 Jun 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | ‘Inaction is also a form of action’: Does Modi follow the Rao mantra?
Manipur has been in flames since May 3, meaning for 45 days. The Prime Minister has done little about it.
20 Jun 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | Don’t forget 16 of Bhima Koregaon: It’s symbol of what needs to change
Stan Swamy, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was disallowed a glass with a sipper straw in jail for weeks
13 Jun 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | New building will not solve the key problems India’s Parliament faces
Like the Vande Bharat trains, it is a solution to problems that do not exist
30 May 2023 12:10 AM
Aakar Patel | Why the Congress won in K'taka, and the BJP held on to its vote share
There are two things the Congress itself says were important. The five schemes they promised and the Bharat Jodo Yatra
23 May 2023 12:00 AM
Aakar Patel | What was behind Cong K’taka win: The questions that need to be asked
An election is over in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that a ban on the Bajrang Dal was the same as an attack on Hanuman.
16 May 2023 12:44 AM
Aakar Patel | India’s foreign policy on Pak: No talking, and no handshakes
The story in Goa of course was the rude body language we apparently displayed to him, the apparent refusal to shake hands and so on
09 May 2023 12:08 AM
Aakar Patel | Of ‘sabka saath’ & ‘beti bachao’: The myth and reality in India
'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated political benefit
02 May 2023 7:44 AM
Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic dividend lacking
Not only have we not added new jobs, we have lost some of those we had.
25 Apr 2023 12:59 AM
Aakar Patel | Hindu Rashtra via reinterpretation of the Constitution?
Prof. Gopal’s thesis is that he sees a Hindu Rashtra coming to fruition by 2047 in two steps
18 Apr 2023 12:41 AM
Aakar Patel | ‘Fact-checking’ by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to curb dissent?
Visible action by the State, especially harsh and intimidatory action, against critics and dissenters acts as a deterrent
11 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | Targeting ‘others’: How will it benefit India or brighten the nation’s future?
The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce, segregation and clothing
04 Apr 2023 12:20 AM
Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India’s rank so low?
We, in the thick of it, may not have noticed the water boiling and the temperature rising
28 Mar 2023 12:00 AM
Aakar Patel | Modi 2.0: There’s a contradiction between the myth and the reality…
On corruption, the BJP has been on the backfoot since January because of the Adani affair.
21 Mar 2023 12:45 AM
Aakar Patel | India’s parties and politics of exclusion: How it hurts growth
India is experimenting after 2014 with the same things that Pakistan tried and failed with in its opening decades
14 Mar 2023 12:05 AM
Aakar Patel | What kind of a ‘developed’ nation might we be by 2047
If we expect to grow faster, how and what are we doing or going to do that is different from what we have done since 2014?
07 Mar 2023 12:05 AM
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