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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    African students protest the attack against the attack on a Congolese national in Delhi.Opinion
    Indians are racists to the core

    In India, we observe that the colour of skin changes as we travel from the north to the south.

    9 April 2017 1:45 AM IST

    The party member and nine others are facing a criminal case under the Madhya Pradesh Cow Slaughter Ban Act (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Where is our individual freedom?

    The reality is that India's laws are inflected by high-caste Hindu customs.

    2 April 2017 12:36 AM IST

    Congress logoOpinion
    Congress in 2017 must find its raison d'être

    Few Indians have an incentive to mobilise for the Congress.

    26 March 2017 12:51 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a road show in Varanasi during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election campaign. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Numbers look good for Narendra Modi

    BJP's UP win is thought to have made the return to power of Narendra Modi in 2019 inevitable.

    19 March 2017 1:31 AM IST

    For Modi, its a tricky road to 2019Opinion
    For Modi, it's a tricky road to 2019

    Fortunately, there is some space for Mr Modi to do better in other big states.

    19 March 2017 12:46 AM IST

    President Donald TrumpOpinion
    Time to fight back

    A series of repressive executive orders passed by Mr Trump in his first two months in office will have far-reaching,...

    12 March 2017 12:49 AM IST

    Its time we support free thinkingOpinion
    It's time we support free thinking

    The BJP and its Hindutva groups are pushing the hard nationalism agenda.

    5 March 2017 1:49 AM IST

    Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    The long, slow death of Congress

    It is possible that the Congress may be revived under another leader.

    26 Feb 2017 12:46 AM IST

    Soldiers patrol in Kashmir. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Note ban fails on the count of militancy

    We should understand that the unrest in Kashmir cannot be solved by demonetisation.

    19 Feb 2017 1:08 AM IST

    Union minister and BJP leader Uma Bharti addresses an election rally in AgraOpinion
    Dishonouring the oath of office

    We expect mobs in the subcontinent to hand out punishment without trial.

    12 Feb 2017 2:46 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    A great nation protects rights of everyone

    Many Americans felt that Mr Trump's ban was similar to an event in the 1940s.

    5 Feb 2017 12:41 AM IST

    The Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) group said the grant of the compensation cannot be a substitute to the \prosecution of 1984 genocide perpetrators\.Opinion
    Does tareekh pe tareekh' apply to 1984?

    Powerful leaders from the Congress were named as having participated in the killings.

    29 Jan 2017 1:20 AM IST

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