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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    It affirmed the Baa2 foreign-currency and local-currency long-term issuer ratings for India.Opinion
    A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

    Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

    1 March 2020 1:02 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Modi stands to gain if Trump returns to power

    Donald Trump since becoming President has visited 20 countries of which the majority are in Europe.

    23 Feb 2020 4:15 AM IST

    Modis strategy to redesign Indias economy was Make in India, but that has flopped.Opinion
    Acknowledge that Make in India has failed

    Vietnam is 16 per cent and has gone up from 13 per cent when we launched Make in India. Sri Lanka is at 16 per cent.

    16 Feb 2020 5:00 AM IST

    The SC has not given Kashmiris the right to use the Internet though it made some pious noises about this in January.Opinion
    BJP’s policies: What are the court’s priorities?

    The SC has not heard the matter of Kashmiri leaders being locked up without charge or trial.

    9 Feb 2020 5:47 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Opinion
    Unlike Gujarat, Modi’s focus is now on ideology, not economy

    It appears to me that this focus on trying whatever was possible to push the economy has gone missing now from the...

    3 Feb 2020 6:21 AM IST

    Protesters display placards during an all-women demonstration against CAA, NRC, NRP in Bengaluru on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Anti-CAA protests about people, not parties

    By any account, this is a huge success, especially against a government with a large majority and with a positive media...

    26 Jan 2020 5:57 AM IST

    The agitation that preceded the vandalism was long and sustained but it was not like the current one and we will get to why that is so. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The protesters have a limited agenda — roll back CAA

    The Emergency’s atrocities were committed mostly on Congress’s political opponents and the media.

    19 Jan 2020 5:20 AM IST

    PM Modi celebrated Diwali in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir with Indian Army troops. (Photo: File | ANI)Opinion
    Modi govt won’t back off on CAA, NRC

    The protests against it around the country have made no difference to the strong posture of the government in favour of...

    12 Jan 2020 2:05 AM IST

    People hold placards while protesting against the CAA and NRC at Rajghat, New Delhi, on Saturday.Opinion
    CAA: World looks at India with distaste, dismay

    The government does not even need to build all the concentration camps, called “detention centres”, around the...

    5 Jan 2020 3:10 AM IST

    Both in India and Pakistan, there is a lack of awareness, generally speaking, about the nature of the divisions that produced Pakistan.Opinion
    Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

    In Pakistan, and particularly after the military capture of the state by successive generals, the narrative became quite...

    29 Dec 2019 2:25 AM IST

    Tens of thousands of protesters against the CAB descended on the streets of Assam, clashing with police and plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent six-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Immigration policy of BJP has unwanted side-effects

    The Citizenship Amendment Bill offers these people cover and will only specifically exclude Muslims.

    15 Dec 2019 5:49 AM IST

    The other reason why policemen do not want to participate directly in murders is that it is a crime and could get them into trouble.Opinion
    Encounter in Hyderabad was a lynching

    The encounter specialist is the policeman who is willing to do the murder at close quarters of unarmed human beings.

    8 Dec 2019 1:35 AM IST

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