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Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel is a writer and columnist. You can e-mail the author at aakar.patel@gmail.com

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Where Was Modi When We Needed Him Most?
Rediff.com24 Apr 2024

'From April 25, 2021, Modi disappeared. He made no public appearance for 20 days.' 'The...

BJP's Complete Distrust Of Federalism
Rediff.com1 Apr 2024

What is to be done to resist the twin thrusts of the BJP's ideology, majoritarian and a...

Desis Rally For Secular India
Rediff.com25 Mar 2024

The Constitution's Preamble says that we Indians have resolved to secure for Indians...

Is Modi's Authoritarianism Good For India?
Rediff.com22 Mar 2024

We need not spend much time going over what this government has done and is doing to...

The Birth Of BJP, Child Of Largest NGO
Rediff.com13 Mar 2024

Immediately following its ban being lifted on July 11, 1949, the RSS began debating...

Electoral Bonds Exposes Weakness In India's Institutions
Rediff.com22 Feb 2024

When a strong executive decides it wants something, even something that is dangerous...

Caste Is Missing In Prohibition Debates
Rediff.com5 Feb 2024

The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that...

Advani: Ram Temple's Accidental Architect
Rediff.com19 Jan 2024

As the temple is inaugurated, unfortunately for Advani but unsurprisingly for the rest...

Modiji, Why Fix Laws That Ain't Broken?
Rediff.com5 Jan 2024

The judiciary, the police, the lawyers and the public will have to know the new laws....

Modi's Flawed Foreign Policy
Rediff.com21 Dec 2023

We should reassess what India's role in the world is and whether we are doing the right...

Modiji Census Kab Hoga?
Rediff.com1 Dec 2023

Given the reality of the disparity and the enormous shift over the last 50 years, this...

Demonetisation: Why Did RBI Protect Modi?
Rediff.com17 Nov 2023

Events proved that on every count the RBI had accurately predicted both the damage and...

Bandh Karo Yeh Electoral Bonds!
Rediff.com14 Nov 2023

Despite the objections raised by Reserve Bank of India and Election Commission, India's...

Why Supreme Court Drags Feet On Important Matters
Rediff.com31 Oct 2023

For the longest time, the court did not even hear important matters that the government...

Is Ajit Doval Failing India On Security?
Rediff.com14 Oct 2023

It is when one looks away from the immediate song and dance and at the granular detail...

The Normalcy Of Extrajudicial Killings In India
Rediff.com29 Sep 2023

An unofficial and brutal justice system exists parallel to the official one, and it...

Will INDIA's Boycott Change 'Media'?
Rediff.com20 Sep 2023

One hopes, though one is not optimistic, that this action to some extent corrects the...

Special Session: Even Cabinet Is In The Dark
Rediff.com14 Sep 2023

This form of government, where secrets and major decisions are kept from the Cabinet...

How Space Travel Can Unite The World
Rediff.com1 Sep 2023

All progress in space should excite us and encourage us to be optimists about a better...

The Bizarre Case Of Umar Khalid
Rediff.com17 Aug 2023

Arrested in September 2019 by the Delhi police for making 'provocative statements' when...