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Trade among South Asian countries now totals just $23 billion below an estimated current value of at least $67 billion. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | If our trade with China can see a rise, why not with our...

Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das said last week that the government and the RBI were in discussions with South...

10 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

The roots of our problem with China go back a few hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July 1807 (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | Indiaâ€™s Pakistan obsession: Can doctrine shift to...

In concluding his chapter on intelligence agencies and their manner of functioning, Amarjit Singh Dulat, a former head...

3 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

A.S. Dulat (Photo: G.N. Jha)

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how Indiaâ€™s spooks...

India’s spies and spymasters do not usually write their memoirs. This is in keeping with bureaucrats, judges,...

27 Dec 2022 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 | The caste factor and the BJP-RSSâ€™ Hindutva politics in...

The 103rd Constitution Amendment, which was upheld by the Supreme Court recently, has been appreciated by our middle...

20 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Demystifying the G-20 presidency: What it means for...

If one cannot actually be a leader, one can always pretend one is a leader. It is like wearing combat fatigues and...

13 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

Patel was part of the earlier generation, and, along with Jinnah and Gandhi, passed on shortly after Independence. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same...

We are in the middle of yet another election cycle (do these things never end?) and the matter of Jawaharlal Nehru...

6 Dec 2022 12:05 AM IST

File photo of BJP workers welcoming PM Narendra Modi as he, along with BJP president Amit Shah, arrives at the party headquarters to celebrate the partys victory in the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi (Photo: AP)

Aakar Patel | After decisive win in 2019, has govt run out of steam?

The BJP government went into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a lot of energy and momentum. The electoral victory in May...

29 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Newspapers and magazines got 53 per cent of all advertising as recently as 2005. In 2022, digital will get 45 per cent and television 40 per cent. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | If print media loses ground, democracy is threatened too

A newspaper earlier this year had reported that print media advertising had grown to Rs. 16,000 crores in 2021, rising...

22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the decisions of the GST Council are only recommendatory in nature and not binding on the Centre and the states. (Photo:PTI)

Aakar Patel | With institutions of democracy undermined, fears for the...

Government blocked reports that reflected poor state of economy

15 Nov 2022 12:12 AM IST

Is it that we no longer care about tyranny and due process and individual rights? Or has it now become fine just because its not the foreigners who are doing it? (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Raj lessons for todayâ€™s India: Why do we see fewer...

Last week my new book was out and its subject is peaceful protest by individuals. The question is -- why should one...

8 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Pakistan is looking ahead to a general election next year. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | Pakâ€™s journey in 7 decades: Military juntas to...

It has been 14 years since Pakistan’s fourth dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf left office as the country’s...

1 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)

Aakar Patel | How BJPâ€™s line changed over civil liberties & social...

The BJP has evolved over the years in an unusual manner, going from being conservative on social issues to radical. In...

26 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST