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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

Burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India's health calamity has exposed flaws in Gujarat...

There is no example of a developed nation that had a Third World education and healthcare system

27 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

You cannot expect to be given a position on the UN Security Council, as India does, when the world sees what you are doing with distaste. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better

India's urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India's labour force is...

20 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | It's wrong to say Indians have right to choose faith

In 2003, under Narendra Modi, Gujarat passed a law that essentially removed all freedom of religion for Gujaratis

13 April 2021 1:21 AM IST

It appears that many Indians are not primarily voting on the basis of issues like the economy and their own well-being as measured by data provided by the government. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | India headed in wrong direction: Is it too late to...

We have become as much of a religious state as Pakistan and this is a fact

30 March 2021 1:16 AM IST

Why is the Narendra Modi government sending letters to the states that they should have strict enforcement of crowd control when Mr Modi is himself holding giant rallies. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | The unreality' of India today: Nothing makes sense any...

The second wave of Covid-19 had begun at the end of February, so the question is why spectators were allowed into the...

23 March 2021 7:55 AM IST

It was only under Lal Krishna Advani, and then especially under Narendra Modi, that the BJP became the mass-based electoral force it has become, from the cadre-based party that was the Jan Sangh. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | BJP has never spelt out what parivartan' it hopes to...

The Jan Sangh said that it would repeal preventive detention laws which it said were absolutely in contradiction to...

16 March 2021 4:14 AM IST

Aakar Patel | India's image in free fall, but govt in denial on real...

The fact is that we do very well on political rights, and in fact the government gets 3/4 on transparency, which is...

9 March 2021 11:28 AM IST

Aakar Patel | As democracy endangered, India's global reputation hit

The Indian government today does not care what it does to Indians as long as it can continue on its path

2 March 2021 10:35 AM IST

The nations that follow India on the list of those with high taxes are all European nations, plus the United States and Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Who's to blame for Rs 100 petrol: Nehru, Indira or Modi...

India's consumers pay the highest rate of tax on the petrol and diesel that they consume

23 Feb 2021 4:13 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (LSTV/PTI Photo)

Aakar Patel | Vital areas in kids' health left ignored in Budget 2021

Poshan Abhiyan, the flagship programme meant to improve nutritional outcomes by 2022, was also damaged

16 Feb 2021 7:27 AM IST

While our government responded strongly to Rihanna and Greta Thunberg, with the external affairs ministry issuing a statement, it hasnt said anything on this downgrade, which more people will read and take seriously than someones tweet. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | Democracy Index: Why India's rank now falling

India has fallen from a global ranking of 27 in 2015 to 53 in 2020

9 Feb 2021 4:04 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi's eighth Budget looms, there's still no grand...

Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to...

31 Jan 2021 12:37 AM IST