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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Union minister Smriti Irani said Congress was trying to prove its leaders involved in the Bofors case and Robert Vadra, Sonia Gandhis son-in-law involved in controversial land deals, innocent. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)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...

    23 Dec 2018 12:21 AM IST

    BJP, not Cong, has more of a high commandOpinion
    BJP, not Cong, has more of a high command'

    We think of the Congress party as being a dictatorship internally because it is dynastic.

    16 Dec 2018 7:34 AM IST

    Pollsters must be held accountableOpinion
    Pollsters must be held accountable

    In India we have the most complex political society of any democratic nation.

    9 Dec 2018 1:55 AM IST

    Fugitives cite our system to avoid extraditionOpinion
    Fugitives cite our system to avoid extradition

    We have to follow our own laws and processes properly so that we are respected by the world as a rule of law state.

    2 Dec 2018 12:06 AM IST

    V.S. Naipaul (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Ram temple sentiment is hate, not devotion

    Today the political parties and the mass media can say things, reckless things, which they perhaps hesitated from saying...

    25 Nov 2018 3:18 AM IST

    Congress President Rahul Gandhi labelled the Rafale deal as an open and shut case. (Photo: ANI/Twitter)Opinion
    Rahul should restore prestige of Gandhis

    There will be an instant and positive change in the way Rahul Gandhi is perceived by millions if he says he is not a...

    18 Nov 2018 7:39 AM IST

    In the US, the assumption and the belief is that it is the people who make the nation and the people who will bring greatness.Opinion
    Free speech is critical to a nation's greatness

    In India we have traditionally had a lot of freedom when it comes to expression about the nature of God and of reality.

    11 Nov 2018 12:29 AM IST

    Journalist-turned-childrens author Shabnam Minwallas What Maya Saw (Harper Collins, 2017) is one among the three shortlisted under the Young Adult Books category. (Representional Image)Opinion
    What sort of India do we want?

    I will waste no time trying to explain to readers what sort of a writer Mr Guha is. It is pointless.

    4 Nov 2018 2:28 AM IST

    US President Donald TrumpOpinion
    Simple nationalism is leading us to anger

    We have come to a dangerous pass in this country and we have arrived here very quickly.

    28 Oct 2018 4:44 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump (Photo: File)Opinion
    Our polls are fought on claims, not facts

    In India the narrative of an election is often controlled by the Opposition rather than the ruling party.

    21 Oct 2018 1:53 AM IST

    M.J. AkbarOpinion
    MJ has betrayed those he influenced

    The revelations about his assaults on young women mean that his reputation and all that he has stood for is in tatters...

    14 Oct 2018 7:49 AM IST

    Bombay Stock marketOpinion
    Not much to cheer in BJP's time in power

    The economy has not grown faster in the last five years than it did during the ten years before this government took...

    7 Oct 2018 12:56 AM IST

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