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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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

The India growth story is over and has been over for a few years now. You can make all the speeches that you want, you cannot argue against 39 straight months of slowing down. (Photo: Reuters)

Aakar Patel | Growth is just not picking up, but no end to ...

We have entered the 13th consecutive quarter of economic slowdown in India

26 Jan 2021 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Nehru a model of modernity Why his vision & legacy...

The problem is that nobody in the world of Hindutva has any vision good, bad or indifferent when compared to Nehru

19 Jan 2021 6:49 AM IST

Aakar Patel | On Republic Day, time to reclaim our basic rights

None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being fundamental are present in the original...

12 Jan 2021 10:50 AM IST

Governments own data shows that Indians were earning and eating less in 2018 than they were in 2012 (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Fragile Index shows India is headed into a scary future

India's economic growth has slowed, declining to its lowest nominal level since 1978

5 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

The corporate groups are not in charge of how much of its agriculture and dairy India can export. It is the government that will have to force other nations to open their markets to our farmers (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Farmers won't put trust in PM, dharna unlikely to be...

Agriculture exports fell from $43 billion in 2013, before Mr Modi, to $38 billion last year

29 Dec 2020 4:35 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Time bombs' ticking in the Constitution are a worry

The Constitution is a terrific document, but it is also one that has suppressed the Hindu majoritarian sentiment

22 Dec 2020 7:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi govt's real eco strategy: To let Big Biz grow &...

'Atma Nirbhar' privileges the industrialist over the consumer, but that is not the way that it is advertised

15 Dec 2020 8:54 AM IST

Farmers during their Delhi Chalo protest march against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, December 6 (PTI/Manvender Vashist)

Aakar Patel | Will Centre be forced to give in to the farmers?

Notice the similarities between the farmers' movement and the protests across the country against the citizenship...

8 Dec 2020 8:39 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla during the first National Implementation Committee meeting on 75 years of Independence, in New Delhi on November 25, (PTI /Shahbaz Khan)

Aakar Patel | Looking at the future in fear as economy goes into...

India's economy has contracted for six months since Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the harshest lockdown in the...

1 Dec 2020 10:07 AM IST

An Indian nationals returns to India after being stranded due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus, at the India Pakistan-Wagah Border Post, some 35 km from Amritsar on November 23, 2020. (AFP)

Aakar Patel | From testing to travel, India's Covid handling process...

A report from Bloomberg this week said that questionable testing in India could be the reason why our Covid-19 numbers...

24 Nov 2020 12:01 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi

Everything is looking bleak: Can Modi still bring change?

It is the personal attractiveness and credibility of the Prime Minister that has yet again taken the BJP through in...

18 Nov 2020 1:34 AM IST