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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    The coloniser who murdered immigrantsOpinion
    The coloniser who murdered immigrants

    Perhaps he should have moved to Europe if he felt so strongly, instead of taking out the problems of his identity crisis...

    17 March 2019 2:16 AM IST

    In fact even the British officers who first examined the remains at Harappa did not fully understand what they were and many of the first-rate bricks that were found there were used to build the railways.Opinion
    Our history is older than Aryan influx

    A village right next to it is populated by Punjabis who would have lived there for generations without any interest in...

    10 March 2019 1:30 AM IST

    Abhinandan Varthaman(Photo: PTI)Opinion
    We must think beyond rivalling Pakistan

    The intensity with which we are focussed on Pakistan, particularly our government and our media, ultimately harms us and...

    3 March 2019 1:55 AM IST

    A file photo of India captain Virat Kohli and his counterpart Sarfaraz Ahmed posing with the Champions Trophy. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    World Cup: Boycotting Pak gets us nothing

    India has always beaten Pakistan in the World Cup in the previous six times we have played them.

    24 Feb 2019 2:07 AM IST

    Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    India must calibrate response to Jaish

    The Mumbai police had a similar problem after the 1993 riots and bomb blasts and they no longer have good local networks...

    17 Feb 2019 2:26 AM IST

    Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf (Photo: AP)Opinion
    While Pak bans bank interest, India bans cows

    Most Indians, including judges, do not take the scientific and economic reading of Article 48.

    10 Feb 2019 4:37 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)Opinion
    We need universal basic income as jobs shrink

    The Modi government's scheme is for farmers who have less than 2 hectares (meaning about 5 acres)

    3 Feb 2019 1:13 AM IST

    The dancing women move from one area to the next after a few songs, unless there is someone who is paying a lot of money for someone particular to remain.Opinion
    The morality police and dance bars

    The dance bar usually has multiple areas and the ones on the higher floors are reserved for clients willing to pay more...

    20 Jan 2019 1:37 AM IST

    Delivering the 31st endowment lecture of the Intelligence Bureau in Delhi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said unity and diversity are an integral part of Indian culture. (Photo: Twitter | @nitin_gadkari)Opinion
    2019: BJP likely to strike an extreme pose

    The space for Mr Modi will continue to shrink and the drift towards the right and the extreme will accelerate.

    13 Jan 2019 7:37 AM IST

    The partys aggressive use of the Sabarimala issue has definitely helped it to attract a significant part of the upper caste vote which is angry over the Supreme Court decision to allow all Indians to access the temple.Opinion
    Defeat of tradition will help BJP in Kerala

    The Emergency and then the Ayodhya movement gave the Jana Sangh and BJP the opportunity to mobilise and it grabbed it.

    6 Jan 2019 3:47 AM IST

    We Indians need to refine our cultureOpinion
    We Indians need to refine our culture

    Korea itself is partitioned like India into two countries, which have a dangerous border and the threat of nuclear...

    30 Dec 2018 12:22 AM IST

    Can we be patriotic the way we want to?Opinion
    Can we be patriotic the way we want to?

    What Smriti Irani and others of her type want us to do for our country begins and ends with crying at the national...

    24 Dec 2018 12:06 AM IST

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