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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    MEA S Jaishankar (AP photo)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Jaishankar’s prescriptions are simplistic, just...

    The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false

    15 Sept 2020 5:09 PM IST

    Migrants from Rajasthan and West Bengal wait to boars Shramik train at Chennai railway station. PTI photoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | ‘Unlock’ rules are illogical: If flights allowed,...

    The Indian Railways is still by and large largely shut, and has been shut since the lockdown began

    1 Sept 2020 5:33 PM IST

    Aakar Patel | Why are we so obsessed about a Bollywood actor’s death?Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Why are we so obsessed about a Bollywood actor’s...

    Will the voter determine whether or not to vote for them based on a Bollywood event?

    25 Aug 2020 5:19 PM IST

    The world is interconnected and interdependent, as he has himself said so often and he repeated on SaturdayOpinion
    Aakar Patel | PM Modi-'s ‘shopping list’ had no substance, only...

    In his speech, Modi made much about the freedom struggle though, of course, his Sangh Parivar had abstained from it

    16 Aug 2020 2:30 AM IST

    Representational image (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | India losing its Mahabharat against Covid?

    India is the only nation, to repeat, that has consistently been going up in terms of number of cases from the start till...

    11 Aug 2020 5:12 PM IST

    Representationl image (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | How the media, like politics, has become bigoted and...

    The media space in India is funded primarily by advertising, The reader or viewer pays very little by way of...

    5 Aug 2020 8:39 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | What’s this govt good at, except announcements?

    In the six months of this year, over 200 people have already been killed in violence in Kashmir

    30 July 2020 6:24 PM IST

    PM Narendra Modi (AFP)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Modiji the 2-minute decision-maker

    PM Modi said in a very fine interview with Madhu Kishwar that he doesn’t read files as he can’t govern through...

    21 July 2020 4:45 PM IST

    A man who used his influence to get away with the worst crimes surrenders and is shot dead in custody before he can reveal his secrets. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | The realities of life in a lawless state

    In lawless states like India, even the government does not know the law

    14 July 2020 6:34 PM IST

    Representational image (PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Indians must unite to face a huge threat to our nation

    When the disease spreads rapidly in places without urban healthcare, what will come is not difficult to imagine

    7 July 2020 5:45 PM IST

    : Indian army convoy moves towards the Line of Actual Control (LAC) from Leh. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Mr PM, ignoring China’s intrusion is the opposite of...

    Satellite imagery confirms that the tent our men died trying to remove has now become a series of Chinese structures on...

    30 Jun 2020 4:32 PM IST

    BJP National President JP Nadda pays floral tribute to Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his death anniversary. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | As BJP’s story evolves, will Bengal set tone for its...

    The story of BJP, which began in Bengal with Mookerjee, is poised to return to that state very soon

    23 Jun 2020 4:44 PM IST

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