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Aakar Patel
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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist
    Why the noose tightened on MemonOpinion
    Why the noose tightened on Memon

    Yakub Memon, the brother of Ibrahim “Tiger” Memon, will be hanged at the end of this month. Yakub Memon was...

    18 July 2015 8:31 AM IST

    Modi wakes up to realpolitikOpinion
    Modi wakes up to realpolitik

    Prime Minister Modi must be congratulated for his brave move in announcing he will visit Pakistan. I do not mean brave...

    11 July 2015 6:34 AM IST

    Why Modi continues to shineOpinion
    Why Modi continues to shine

    When he won the general elections last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lifted his party to a 32 per cent vote. This...

    5 July 2015 12:06 PM IST

    Have you deregistered?Opinion
    Have you deregistered?

    A few months ago, I tried to book a gas cylinder for my home in Bengaluru. Now as many of you will know, it has become...

    28 Jun 2015 11:48 AM IST

    PM’s integrity can’t absolve Sushma-RajeOpinion
    PM’s integrity can’t absolve Sushma-Raje

    The web of favours and money is too deep to be brushed aside as either a falsehood or an a minor offence

    21 Jun 2015 8:01 AM IST

    Yoga: Nothing religious about itOpinion
    Yoga: Nothing religious about it

    I think it is a good thing to have more compulsory physical exercise in schools, particularly yoga. Scholar Wendy...

    12 Jun 2015 10:00 AM IST

    Keeping out credible insidersOpinion
    Keeping out credible insiders

    BCCI believes that it is dangerous for credible insiders to stay outside its influence

    7 Jun 2015 8:04 AM IST

    No shortcuts to a clean sweepOpinion
    No shortcuts to a clean sweep

    It was reported this week that a new bill in Parliament was going to introduce “spot-fines” for littering in...

    25 May 2015 1:02 PM IST

    PM, President and CJI, say cheeseOpinion
    PM, President and CJI, say cheese

    Ads released by state governments it is the chief minister who is given pride of place

    17 May 2015 10:49 AM IST

    The longest August: Leaping through faithLifestyle
    The longest August: Leaping through faith

    Dilip Hiro has written a book a year for the last three decades with a focus on West Asia

    17 May 2015 7:54 AM IST

    Three Khans and a secular questionOpinion
    Three Khans and a secular question

    Does the success of the three Khans (Shah Rukh, Salman and Aamir) in Bollywood suggest that Indians are inherently...

    3 May 2015 1:29 PM IST

    BJP’s fate now hangs from that treeOpinion
    BJP’s fate now hangs from that tree

    “Congress has turned Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan of ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ into ‘Mar...

    26 April 2015 1:54 PM IST

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