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Columns by Aakar Patel

Is Modi Losing His Impact?

Modi Preaches World Peace But...

Modi Should Listen To Criticism

Can Bangladesh Become A Secular Nation?

Is Trouble Brewing For Modi In BJP?

What Happens If Biden Drops Out?

Will Godi Media Change In Modi 3.0?

Modi's Invincibility Is Gone And Gone Forever

An Era Of Secrecy Is Over For Modi

What Can India Expect If Modi Returns?

Is India Still A Democracy?

Where Was Modi When We Needed Him Most?

BJP's Complete Distrust Of Federalism

Desis Rally For Secular India

Is PM's Authoritarianism Good For India?

The Birth Of BJP, Child Of Largest NGO

Electoral Bonds Exposes Our Weakness

Caste Is Missing In Prohibition Debates

Advani: Ram Temple's Accidental Architect

Modiji, Why Fix Laws That Ain't Broken?

Modi's Flawed Foreign Policy

Modiji Census Kab Hoga?

Demonetisation: Why Did RBI Protect Modi?

Bandh Karo Yeh Electoral Bonds!

Why Supreme Court Drags Feet On Important Matters

Is Ajit Doval Failing India On Security?

The Normalcy Of Extrajudicial Killings In India

Will INDIA's Boycott Change 'Media'?

Special Session: Even Cabinet Is In The Dark

How Space Travel Can Unite The World

The Bizarre Case Of Umar Khalid

Modi Set To Push NPR Again?

Why Modi Avoids Acknowledging Problems

Will India Win The New Space Race?

In Modi's Amritkal, Worrying Decline Of Economy

Why BK-16 Must Not Be Forgotten

Will New Parliament Truly Be A Temple Of Democracy?

Snubbing Bhutto And After

Did Election Jumlas Cost BJP Karnataka Election?

India: Vishwaguru Or In Amritkaal?

Modi's New Target: Digital Media

Will Hindutva Improve India's Future?

Modi 2.0: Setbacks And Failures

Under Modi India's Slide In World Indexes

The Watchdog That Didn't Bark

What Does This Say About Our Society?

Can Modi Solve India's Economic Woes?

Why Is Govt Silent On Adani Controversy?

Modiji, Do You Have A Plan To Improve Education?

Why BJP's Dominance Will Continue

Why Does Modi Not Slash Chinese Imports?

Why Is Modi Silent About Chinese Aggression?

What If Sardar Patel Was First PM?

One Fears For What Is To Come

Army Still Up To Mischief In Pakistan

Has Modi Done A Good Job On Exports?

The Most Gandhian Protest Won't Be Tolerated In India

India Overtakes UK. What Next?

Space Race: Will We Be Just A Watcher?

Why Modi Is Delaying The Census

What's India Celebrating In Its Sanyasa?

How Will History See Today's Supreme Court?

Does Modi Govt Hate Human Rights Defenders?

Why Is Mohammed Zubair In Jail?

Judges Must Stand Up For Us Against A Malign State

Why Agnipath Protests Will Fizzle Out

Nupur Sharma Controversy: Lessons For BJP

Why Aryan Khan's Case Must Worry Us All

Is It Time To Become A Hindu Rashtra?

Why Ban Only Sedition Law?

Why Do We Need A Hindu Rashtra?

Why India Can't Be A Modern, Civilised, Free Society

Why Price Rise Is Not Important For Indians

Why Is Modi Not Transparent On China?

The Real Reason For The BJP Victory

What Do Indians Vote For?

Modi Has No Idea How To Deal With The World

India's Jobs Crisis

Why Are These Children Being Bullied?

Can Akhilesh Stop BJP In UP?

Voters Least Bothered About Economy

Why The World Is Worried About India

Needed ASAP: A National Security Policy

The Gujaratification Of India

Be Kinder, Gentler, 2022

Why Are Christians Being Targeted?

BJP And The Politics Of Conversion

AFSPA: Repeal Won't Change Anything

How Modi Lost The Plot

India Has Lost The Way Economically

What is India's Destiny?

Modi's reforms are accompanied by lack of planning

Why the Hindutva Project Will FAIL

The REAL Story Of The 1 Billion Vaccines

Mr PM, When will you solve India's HUNGER CRISIS?

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: A FAILURE?

What does Modi gain by not REPEALING Farm Laws?

India's JOBS CRISIS

Lakha Khan, An Indian Treasure

India-US Military Alliance Against China?

How the BJP has CHANGED India

Is Modi's political capital depleting?

Middle Class STOPPED GROWING Under Modi

Why Modi is HARSH on NGOs

Why were the BK 16 Arrested?

Modi Failed India on the Economy

Modi's Huge Challenge: The Economy

What Vikas Yatra is Modi talking about?

Why is Modi angry with Twitter?

Why did Modi fail to anticipate a second wave?

Is India hiding Covid death numbers?

Why Modi's Gujarat model has failed

Mr Modi: How will the poor pay for the vaccine?

What do Indians Vote For?

Why India needs an independent media

Is this how India is fighting COVID-19?

What 'parivartan' does Modi want?

Modi's Dilemma

Does Modi really care about Indians?

When will Modi cut high taxes on fuels?

Is India becoming a flawed democracy?

India's growth story is over

Will this Budget be a 'Game Changer'?

Is Republic Day truly worth a celebration?

Is India becoming a failed State?

Why Modi is not good at implementation

The ticking time bombs in the Constitution

Does Modi want small companies to fail?

Govt has used all its tricks on the farmers

Why a sense of dread and fear prevails in India

Is India taking COVID-19 seriously?

Why does Modi want more power?

Will Kamala Harris spell trouble for India?

Can we believe Modi on Covid or economy?

What Election Commission can learn from US

Modiji, whatever happened to competing with China?

Does Modi want to FIX the Economy?

When will India become a rule of law nation?

Why every Indian should be worried

If Jaishankar is correct, why doesn't he fix it?

Ladakh crisis: Why doesn't Modi speak to Xi?

Why the lockdown has failed in India

Is Sushant's death more important than India's crises?

I-Day Speech: Why was Modi silent about China?

Why the Indian media has got a Hindutva edge

Modi and the art of event management

Modi and the problem of 2 minute presentations

Has India ever seen multiple crises like these?

When will Modi use force to kick Chinese out?

From BJS to BJP: The Road Travelled

How will Modi resolve the Chinese problem?

Modi must give Indians the capacity to reach 2021

How will we remember these days and weeks?

Why the poor won't trust this government anymore

After the lockdown: How will govt treat us?

Crores of Indians have no income today

Be warned! Dark economic times ahead!

COVID-19: Modi govt's flip flop way of working

What India will we wake up to on May 4?

Was India underprepared for a lockdown?

Can economy recover after COVID-19, lockdown?

Why is India in lockdown?

India has no defence against coronavirus

India learns the hard way

What has Modi's ultra-nationalism given India?

Has Modi given up on the economy?

Make in India is not a strategy, it is a logo

Should the Opposition make Kejriwal its leader?

Trump has no real affection for India

What the Supreme Court chooses to hear and not hear

When, o, when will PM shift from ideology to economy?

Why politicians are keeping away from CAA protests

Why these anti-CAA protests are historic

2020: Tough year ahead for India

Boris Johnson is not the real villain of Brexit

We have learned no lessons from our history

Do you know why India is protesting against CAA/NRC?

CAA: A message to the Indian Muslim

CAA is a self-inflicted problem

Are we really different from Pakistan?

How far will the Cybertruck go?

Does India need 'encounter specialists'?

Removing Gandhi's SPG cover is a dangerous game

Why Congress-NCP must be wary of the Sena

Nehru's vision for India was unique

Ayodhya verdict: Doctrine of Necessity

Why the WhatsApp hack must scare all of us

No defence against false patriot who peddles slogans

How our lives will change in 10 years

Why is the IAF still buying fighter jets?

Who is a terrorist?

Is 9% growth possible? The answer is yes

Let us have a trade Akhand Bharat

ISRO's attempt is the attempt of all mankind

Mammoth challenges India faces

What is a decisive and strong leadership?

What the Kashmir masterstroke will mean for soldiers

Kashmir: Has Delhi thought through the consequences?

'Made on Earth by humans'

What Chandrayaan-2 will do for India

How Congress can redefine party politics

Why India has not made a world-beating global product

Why an Indian hero's statue was unveiled in Pakistan

A Kashmir diary

Why America hates Iran

What I learnt in Srinagar

Why I salute Azim Premji

Modi prefers total control in his hands

Can the Opposition pick itself up?

Abusive election season ends: What next?

Why I Voted

Will India turn into a Hindu Rashtra?

UP will decide if Modi will remain PM

What BJP has and Congress doesn't

Why Pulwama won't get Modi more votes

How educated does an MP have to be?

Why we vote the way we do

How Modi taught Advani a lesson

Why I want a coalition government

What every Lok Sabha candidate must know

When will this climate of hate end?

What the first Indians tell us about ourselves

As long as we fix Pakistan we are happy

What will we achieve by boycotting Pakistan in World Cup?

How many more suicide bombers are there?

Sword of State Tyranny is Upon Us

Why all parties want to give out money in cash

Jaitley should practise what he preaches

Why dance bar judgment is absolutely right

What are Modi-Shah's plans for Lok Sabha polls?

Ultimate victory in Sabrimala will be of women

What India can learn from South Korea, Japan

What each passing year teaches us

If Rahul was really the Congress boss...

Of all assembly polls since 2014, these are most important

Why India fails to extradite Mallya, Modi, Choksi...

Ayodhya must inspire faith, not hate

Brexit: Nations shouldn't take decisions in a fit of passion

What Rahul needs to do NOW!

What we need for India to become truly great

What the hounding of Ram Guha tells us about India

What I learnt when the government raided my office

Can the Opposition take on BJP's incompetence?

I hope M J Akbar is fired

We now think of our own people as enemies

Why BJP can't turn India into a Hindu rashtra

The Swaraj and Sitharaman example

Indian politics needs to watch out for Ravan

Only two MPs stood up for India's gays

The Indian State is always up to mischief against citizens

Kerala should not be denied foreign aid

What Naipaul understood and Vajpayee didn't

Why the NRC is cruel

Kumar Gandharva is a companion for all time

Nothing will change under Imran: We will still hate each other

The unquestioning Indian reverence for Sanskriti

Imran Khan won't save Pakistan

Why the Opposition failed on Friday

Why the Opposition wants to remove Modi

Why is there no Mann Ki Baat to stop lynchings?

The BJP is not Right

Why we need to discover the world

Japan is the most advanced society in the world

What happens if the BJP wins only 210 seats in 2019...

It's time to look at the anti-defection law

Do the Gandhis have the maturity to forge alliances?

6 questions on the 1998 nuclear tests

The government, like the British, sees Indians as a nuisance

What did Modi want from the Chinese?

From a Surat factory to Amnesty: An unusual journey

Will hanging rapists stop rape?

Why Dalits feel left out from Modi's 'sabka saath'

A hung Parliament in 2019 won't be a bad thing

SC verdict is a blow to Dalit, Adivasi rights

Where does Creativity come from?

What's next after 'Acche Din' in 2019?

What does the nation get out of the CBI?

If Rahul wants Delhi, he has to first win in the states

Was Nirav Modi tipped off?

RSS could not have fought a war even 100 years ago

Modi's health plan should be applauded

Our defence expenditure would be a scandal in another democracy

Voices of dissent are only heard at lit fests

Modi has become a father figure

Why are Indians so nasty online?

Had Modi been a CEO, he would be fired

BJP's nationalism is not for all Indians

History will view Sonia Gandhi positively

Acche Din? Not for BJP's Gujarat campaign

We must fight for those fighting for human rights

If Modi wants to win Gujarat, this is what he must do

When will India's Weinsteins be exposed?

Why do fire extinguishers attract 28% GST?!

What does Modi really believe in?

Sushma Swaraj's Twitter durbar

Shah Jahan built the Taj in gratitude

Why most don't see communal riots as terrorism

Why Yashwant Sinha criticised Jaitley and not Modi

Temples must be open to all, not for 'only Hindus'

Why is India rejecting the Rohingyas?

Bullet train costs 3 times more than India's health budget

I won't be surprised if Gauri's killers are not caught

Why note ban failure won't affect Modi

Why I have not got an Aadhar card

Is boarding an airline first the right way to honour a soldier?

Modi's remarks reduced Hamid Ansari to his Muslim identity

Why the Congress is in panic

Nothing wrong in celebrating our city, our state

Lalu, Tejashwi and the Crisis of Opposition Credibility

Why Aakar Patel became a vegan

When will the lynchings end?

Is The Economist right about Modi and the Economy?

A Different Kind of War

Why blame Modi alone? Congress was as intolerant

If Modi can pull this off, he'll be a true world leader

Why do our neighbours dislike or suspect us?

What Trump can learn from Modi

For those who look for Gujarati martyrs

What we need to learn from Nepal and Sri Lanka

Soon computers will overtake our ability to think

'We are in a dark and dangerous period'

What does being pro-India mean?

The good of the IPL

Why did the govt act like Tarun Vijay?

Why hope is running out for the Congress

What does 2019 hold for Narendra Modi?

Time to fight Trump's war on human rights

Modi, master of his craft, is on top of his game

Only students can oppose, resist and dissent today

The Congress party is comatose if not dead

Demonetisation has failed to curb militancy in Kashmir

Did Uma Bharti violate her oath of office?

Lessons India can take from America

Will the 1984 victims ever get justice?

Donald Trump and the lessons for India

By 2020, there will be no newspapers

Stop this showy nationalism!

$What I learnt after fracturing my foot in the UK$

What I learnt after fracturing my foot in the UK

BJP will continue its successes in 2017

No leader could have achieved what Modi has

How Rahul messed up the chance to corner Modi

Who will be proved right? NaMo or Manmohan?

Easier to travel Bangalore-London than Bangalore-Surat

Why Modi continues to enjoy wide popular support

Having shown decisiveness, Modi needs to show governance

Welcome To A Terrifying World

Uniform Civil Code: The need to proceed with caution

The problem with war

The social media nationalists

Why we don't read about dowry deaths any more

Should mother tongue replace English in our schools?

Mass unemployment and social unrest are looming ahead

10 ways of loving India

Be warned! Bad times ahead for the Indian economy

The English news anchor has become overly powerful

Lata and Sachin didn't deserve the Bharat Ratna

We seem to be unable to treat Kashmiris as Indians

Modi is following the Gujarat model of governance

Why buying a house is outrageously expensive

The oldest project in the world comes apart yet again

How does Smriti Irani plan to fix this problem?

What will it take for India to be rich?

Like Queen Elizabeth, Sonia Gandhi should continue

Why the rich give gold to temples

Focusing on Brahmins won't work for Congress in UP

Why don't we want to pay taxes?

Why Modi has been a success so far

Why our institutions are producing unemployable Indians

Congress-mukht Bharat is a question of when, not if

Why this renaming fever continues to burn

Prohibition will fail in Bihar as it has in Gujarat

Why Kulbhushan Jadhav couldn't be a R&AW spy

Why sting operations have failed in India

Our 'nationalism' is against other Indians

If this is not anti-nationalism, what is?

On this Women's Day, let us Indians learn to respect women!

The fires have been lit, and the mobs are standing ready

Our nationalism is only in sentiment, not in behaviour

The JNU protest is linked to caste and prejudice

How the government steals tribal land

2016 will be a good year for Amit Shah and the BJP

Why Dalits have no presence in white collar jobs

Is India in for hard times this year?

Not talking to Pakistan will not stop terrorism

Is it Modi's job to get Indians to be clean?

From beef to James Bond's kiss, 2015 was the year of bans

It's time to correct a depressing national failing

Why the Congress is a private limited company

Why terrorism can't be delinked from religion

The Indian braveheart

What will it take for India to be a superpower

Why do we honour Ashoka and not Tipu?

Something that all Indians can be proud of

Myth of the tolerant, peaceful, Hindu

BJP playing with fire on cow slaughter law

The Corrupt Indian

Modi and the videshi desis

Why the idea of Hindu Rashtra has not caught on in India

Good politics is not necessarily good governance

Why things have remained the same for the Patels in Gujarat

The problem I have with English news television

Nationalism in India is being anti-Pakistan and anti-China

No place in India for Muslims fleeing religious persecution?

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