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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Unemployment at the beginning of the year was at eight per cent, the highest in Indias history. This was before the lockdown. Today it is around 20 per cent. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Modi and his bhakts, and the reality of today’s India

    Meanwhile, as if oblivious to the reality of the decline of India, Modi continues with his political games

    16 Jun 2020 4:37 PM IST

    In this file photo taken on August 29, 2019, a young Changpa nomad sits near pashmina goats in a nomadic camp, about 1 km from Korzok village in the Leh district of Ladakh. AP PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | China’s long-term game: What does it really want?

    From May, China has physically stopped Indian patrols from proceeding beyond Finger 4, effectively giving China full...

    9 Jun 2020 4:57 PM IST

    A medic takes a sample of a woman for Herd Immunity study at ICMR, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai, Saturday. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel | Seven things India must do to save itself from disaster

    All parties and the government acknowledge we are in trouble, and more trouble lies ahead

    2 Jun 2020 5:00 PM IST

    Representational image (PTI)Opinion
    Aakar Patel | Kerala a role model in war against Covid, let's all...

    Remember, there is no cure for Covid-19, If you catch the infection, you can only wait for it to pass through you safely

    28 May 2020 5:40 PM IST

    A policeman disperses migrant workers gathered outside a railway station intending to board a special service train without valid tickets to return back to their home towns during a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel: Break down of trust between state and the poor

    We are mistreating millions of Indians but we are also expecting that all of them cooperate for the greater good

    19 May 2020 6:40 PM IST

    Women work in a field during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in Srinagar. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel: Job security is a distant dream in lockdown times

    The meaning of job security becomes especially clear in a time like this. For crores of us around the globe, that...

    12 May 2020 4:36 PM IST

    Aakar Patel: First time in a generation, India is staring at a recessionOpinion
    Aakar Patel: First time in a generation, India is staring at a...

    The Economic Survey 2018-19 said over nine out of every 10 Indian workers are in this informal sector

    6 May 2020 7:32 PM IST

    Health workers attend to a colleague who fainted due to exhaustion and long working hours at a COVID-19 testing camp in New Delhi. AP PhotoOpinion
    Aakar Patel: Covid-19 has blown away all our fig leaves

    It is our fault as a democracy that we have tolerated such a lack of focus on health, and we will pay for it longer this...

    28 April 2020 5:46 PM IST

    India is a mob, Salman Rushdie said.Opinion
    Aakar Patel: It won't be back to normal on May 4; it will be a...

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

    21 April 2020 11:05 AM IST

    The countrys transportation system has been idle for over three weeks now. (DC Photo: PritOpinion
    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 April 2020 2:21 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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

    5 April 2020 5:42 PM IST

    An Indian migrant workers 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 worlds 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)Opinion
    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 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

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