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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Saffron flags lie outside a mosque a day after communal clashes in Jahangirpuri, a neighborhood in northwest Delhi, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Failure of India’s bureaucrats to stand up for what’s right is...

    It means that the entire bureaucracy is fine with the violence against minorities catalysed by the State

    31 May 2022 12:31 AM IST

    The Gyanvapi Mosque after its survey by a commission, in Varanasi, Tuesday, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for...

    Parliament has the right to repeal the Places of Worship Act, and indeed some people in the BJP have been asking for...

    24 May 2022 7:14 AM IST

    Based on a complaint from one of the victims, police registered a case and arrested Bhanumurthy. Representational image/DCOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Sedition not the only law that should go. There are many...

    Once it dawns on the judiciary that some laws are out of place in a 21st century democracy, then problematic laws will...

    17 May 2022 1:51 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Where the BJP has succeeded, over its 2 terms from 2014, and where it...

    It appears to be the case that the BJP has shifted its focus from the economy to its primary social agenda

    3 May 2022 12:06 AM IST

    Bajrang Dal members stage a protest against the recent killings of Hindus and vandalism of a Durga idol by miscreants in Bangladesh. (PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | If India turns into a Hindu Rashtra, what will it...

    To understand what changes can come here, we must first try to understand what the term Hindu Rashtra means

    26 April 2022 1:41 AM IST

    Several houses, religious places and shops were gutted in Khargone as the communal violence, after an attack on a Ram Navami procession, spread to different parts of the city by late Sunday night. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | India likely to stay on US list of ‘concern’ on...

    The world is not blind to what is happening in India today and it is uncomfortable with it

    18 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Enforcement Directorate. (Photo: Representational Image)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Venal officers target citizens, keeping India as...

    On civil liberties India has only scored 33 out of 60, while the United States has scored 51

    12 April 2022 1:31 AM IST

    A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Why divisive issues hold sway as ‘real’ ones ignored

    The mass media in India is largely owned by corporate bodies

    5 April 2022 12:41 AM IST

    The Indian Army deployed over 50,000 soldiers in Ladakh to counter any threat from the Chinese Army. (Representational Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Of democracies, dictatorships & transparency

    We should consider that India is not a dictatorship and should be using its natural strength as a democracy

    29 March 2022 12:33 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Pegasus spying probe: Can the panel hold Modi govt to...

    The citizens included journalists, key Opposition figures and a sexual harassment survivor

    22 March 2022 1:08 AM IST

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | The real reason for BJP’s huge UP triumph: Not...

    Election victories sanctify the actions of a political party; they do not validate them

    14 March 2022 11:34 PM IST

    Voting began at 7 AM for 252 wards across seven urban local bodies. (Photo: PTI/Representational Image)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Why voters still re-elect govts despite failures on...

    This piece is not about the parties and elections but about the voter, and why they vote in the way they do

    8 March 2022 3:32 AM IST

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