Aakar Patel, asian Page 20

Home » Aakar Patel

About the AuthorAakar Patel

Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

The countrys transportation system has been idle for over three weeks now. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opinion

Aakar Patel: India could not build medical capacity while on lockdown

This points to a lack of planning, strategy and execution. This is bad governance by definition.

15 April 2020 2:22 AM IST

People thrown out of livelihoods sit down for a meal at a soup kitchen set up by the Delhi government at a temporary shelter in the Nizamuddin area. (DC Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opinion

Aakar Patel: What will the new economy look like post Covid-19 crash?

The impact on the global economy may last for an entire generation

5 April 2020 5:47 PM IST

An Indian migrant workers family is silhouetted as they make the journey to their village by foot, following a coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi, India on March 28, 2020. Authorities sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of New Delhi to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the worlds largest coronavirus lockdown. Thousands of people, mostly young male day laborers but also families, fled their New Delhi homes after prime minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown that began on Wednesday and effectively put millions of Indians who live off daily earnings out of work. (AP)

Opinion

Testing key to lockdown's success, as fear of starvation looms

What will happen when the state apparatus needs to act beyond its capacity to cater to lakhs and crores of infected?

29 March 2020 7:23 AM IST

The Centre for the Monitoring of the Indian Economy says that corporate sales declined by 1.2 per cent in the October-December 2019-20 quarter (having declined by 2.8 per cent before that) and profits before tax shrunk by 10 per cent (compared to a shrinkage of 60 per cent in the previous quarter).

Opinion

A bad time for India, but with bad leadership

Outside of the formal sector, data has been difficult to collect credibly in India.

1 March 2020 4:24 AM IST

Modi with Donald Trump at the Howdy Modi event in Houston last year. (AP)

Opinion

Modi stands to gain if Trump returns to power

Donald Trump since becoming President has visited 20 countries of which the majority are in Europe.

23 Feb 2020 12:17 AM IST

Opinion

Acknowledge that Make in India has failed

Vietnam is 16 per cent and has gone up from 13 per cent when we launched Make in India. Sri Lanka is at 16 per cent.

16 Feb 2020 4:58 AM IST

Opinion

BJP's policies: What are the court's priorities?

The SC has not heard the matter of Kashmiri leaders being locked up without charge or trial.

9 Feb 2020 4:53 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Opinion

Unlike Gujarat, Modi's focus is now on ideology, not economy

It appears to me that this focus on trying whatever was possible to push the economy has gone missing now from the...

3 Feb 2020 1:35 AM IST

One indication that the NRC and the CAA have so far not affected India-Bangladesh ties is that the border security forces of both nations held their 49th director- general level talks from December 25 to 30, 2019. Indias Border Security Forces (BSF) delegation was headed by its DG, Vivek Johri, and Border Guards Bangladeshs (BGB) delegation was headed by its DG, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Shafeenul Islam.

Opinion

Anti-CAA protests about people, not parties

By any account, this is a huge success, especially against a government with a large majority and with a positive media...

26 Jan 2020 2:17 AM IST

$The amended Citizenship law along with a National Register of Citizens (NRC) being planned by the Narendra Modi government \may affect the status\ of Muslim minority in India, a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has said. (Photo: PTI)$ Opinion

The protesters have a limited agenda roll back CAA

The Emergency's atrocities were committed mostly on Congress's political opponents and the media.

19 Jan 2020 5:14 AM IST

Supporters of the Bhim Army (above) take part in a march demanding the release of their leader Chandrasekhar Azad and protest against the amended Citizenship Act, NRC and NPR in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY)

Opinion

Modi govt won't back off on CAA, NRC

The police is theoretically independent of the administration, but this is not true even in theory any longer.

12 Jan 2020 7:21 AM IST

People hold placards while protesting against the CAA and NRC at Rajghat, New Delhi, on Saturday.

Opinion

CAA: World looks at India with distaste, dismay

The government does not even need to build all the concentration camps, called detention centres , around the country.

5 Jan 2020 2:56 AM IST