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Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses BJP workers during celebrations after the partys performance in Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya Assembly polls, at the BJP HQ in New Delhi, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Aakar Patel | Inaction is also a form of action': Does Modi follow the...

Manipur has been in flames since May 3, meaning for 45 days. The Prime Minister has done little about it.

20 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

Social activist and preacher Father Stan Swamy. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | Don't forget 16 of Bhima Koregaon: It's symbol of what...

Stan Swamy, suffering from Parkinson's disease, was disallowed a glass with a sipper straw in jail for weeks

13 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

An aerial view of newly-constructed Parliament building that will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28, in New Delhi, Friday, May 26, 2023(Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | New building will not solve the key problems India's...

Like the Vande Bharat trains, it is a solution to problems that do not exist

30 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

The Congress leadership will have to remain vigilant about its governments performance in Karnataka from the very beginning if it looks to approach the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with a creditable performance in the forthcoming Assembly elections. (Photo: PT)

Aakar Patel | Why the Congress won in K'taka, and the BJP held on to...

There are two things the Congress itself says were important. The five schemes they promised and the Bharat Jodo Yatra

23 May 2023 12:00 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the flagging off ceremony of Vande Bharat Express, at Rani Kamlapati Station, in Bhopal, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | What was behind Cong K'taka win: The questions that need...

An election is over in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that a ban on the Bajrang Dal was the same as an...

16 May 2023 12:44 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar with Pakistans Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari before the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers Meeting, in Goa, Friday, May 5, 2023. (PTI)

Aakar Patel | India's foreign policy on Pak: No talking, and no...

The story in Goa of course was the rude body language we apparently displayed to him, the apparent refusal to shake...

9 May 2023 12:08 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the launch of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao programme (Wikimedia)

Aakar Patel | Of sabka saath' & beti bachao': The myth and reality in...

'Beti bachao' is not a convincing phrase in the mouths of those who free convicted rapists for coldly-calculated...

2 May 2023 7:44 AM IST

For those who are not drunk on the magic of numbers, this massive over-population can only warn of a Malthusian disaster looming ahead. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic...

Not only have we not added new jobs, we have lost some of those we had.

25 April 2023 12:59 AM IST

There are several petitions before the Supreme Court of India challenging the constitutional validity of the law. (Representational Image/ ANI File)

Aakar Patel | Hindu Rashtra via reinterpretation of the Constitution?

Prof. Gopal's thesis is that he sees a Hindu Rashtra coming to fruition by 2047 in two steps

18 April 2023 12:41 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Fact-checking' by govt & the truth: Sweeping powers to...

Visible action by the State, especially harsh and intimidatory action, against critics and dissenters acts as a...

11 April 2023 12:05 AM IST

A new generation of RSS and BJP leaders are not inclined to update the Hindutva ideology because their basic presumption of glorifying a dead national past is their basic principle. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten...

The Hindutva State has introduced discriminatory and exclusionary laws and policies on citizenship, food, divorce,...

4 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

The world has been warning us for some years now to correct course and move back to the path of democracy and pluralism. (DC Image)

Aakar Patel | Civil liberties & democracy: Why is India's rank so low?

We, in the thick of it, may not have noticed the water boiling and the temperature rising

28 March 2023 12:00 AM IST