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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Aakar Patel | Of sabka saath & beti bachao: The myth and reality in IndiaOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Of sabka saath' & beti bachao': The myth and reality in...

    'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated...

    2 May 2023 7:44 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic dividend lackingOpinion
    Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic...

    New India is again the world’s most populous nation. Old India was also the most populous place in the world till...

    25 April 2023 1:00 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Hindu Rashtra via reinterpretation of the Constitution?Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Hindu Rashtra via reinterpretation of the Constitution?

    There are two directions in which our present enthusiasm for majoritarian politics can go. I have long thought that...

    18 April 2023 12:39 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Fact-checking by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to curb dissent?Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Fact-checking' by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to...

    On April 6, 2023, the Union government passed new rules, allowing it to identify what it thought was any fake or false...

    11 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Targeting others: How will it benefit India or brighten the future?Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

    Ideologies usually have an end-state or a desired place they want to arrive at. Marxists think that the State will...

    4 April 2023 12:17 AM IST

    Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is Indias rank so low?Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India's rank so low?

    In 2014 Dr Manmohan Singh had said: “I sincerely believe it will be disastrous for the country to have Narendra...

    28 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the inauguration of IIT, in Dharwad, Sunday. (PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Modi 2.0: There’s a contradiction between the myth and...

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen as politically dominant, if not invincible, and with good reason. However, it has...

    21 March 2023 12:44 AM IST

    A worker screen prints flags of various political parties, for advertising in the upcoming Coimbatore Corporation elections, in Coimbatore. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | India’s parties and politics of exclusion: How it...

    One party appears to have the monopoly on bigotry in India. If you are not inclined to support the harassment and...

    14 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the Raisina Dialogue, in New Delhi, Thursday, March 2, 2023.Opinion
    Aakar Patel | What kind of a ‘developed’ nation might we be by...

    Some things happened last week that require reflection. They are different things but we shall try to join them. The...

    7 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Mind you, many of these indicators come from those places where we want to be seen in a good light, such as Davos. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Why is India’s rank on some global indices not...

    India’s most reputable news agency, the Press Trust of India, reported last week that “India ranks 42 in 55...

    28 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani (PTI file image)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Hindenburg saga: Why the markets reacted… Can govt now...

    One can refer to the Adani-Hindenburg saga as a scandal, scam, non-story, conspiracy against India or something else....

    21 Feb 2023 12:06 AM IST

    The mob lynching incident happened on June 17, 2019 and a video went viral showing Tabrez Ansari tied to a pole as people thrashed the man in Dhatkidih village. (Photo: File | Representational)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Lynchings and other atrocities: When ‘news’ is no...

    News is defined as “information about a recent event or recently changed situation”. There is something...

    14 Feb 2023 12:05 AM IST

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