Aakar Patel

The best thing that Modi can hope for in this visit is that he is able to mobilise Indians in America to vote Republican and try and help Trump return to power, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

In the same period as Make in India, Bangladesh’s share of manufacturing has risen from 16% to 18%. Bangladesh’s overall GDP is growing at 8% per year, much faster than India, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

Do the Muslims of India think that they are receiving justice from their nation and particularly from the Supreme Court?

It appears to me that Narendra Modi's focus on trying whatever was possible to push the economy during his days as Gujarat CM has gone missing from the PM's outlook, writes Aakar Patel.

The protests are largely leaderless but they are comprised of millions of determined individuals who are all standing up for the same thing.

Many of the protestors are indeed Muslims, but they are not asking for anything more than what they already have.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to be willing to absorb some damage in India's international reputation to further the ideology, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

It's clear in the minds of Muslims that this government has been planning, for some time, to introduce a process which will weed them out of India, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

We have learned no lessons from our history even when its teaching has been so clear and precise, writes author-columnist Aakar Patel.

The Citizenship Amendment Act will jail Muslims who are accused of being foreigners and can't prove that they are Indians to the satisfaction of the BJP government.

Like his coruscatingly brilliant stories, Manto was quirky, unpredictable, made of hard and soft edges. These essays, by his literary friends, confirm his genius.

Amnesty International India executive director Aakar Patel says our society lags behind the Constitution’s standards in ensuring democratic rights, and it’s high time we caught up.

K.M. Munshi’s fiction did much to fashion a rigid Gujarati stand on history and identity. This novel, barring a new introduction, has little literary merit.

A translation faithful to the original and a sampling of Manto’s rarer non-fiction makes this book worthwhile

Friend Jyoti Malhotra scored a pack of cigarettes in the coffee shop at the departure lounge, but they had no matches or lighters.

It’s hard to ignore that IM has time and again struck at Gujaratis

Lead us from formula to narrative, from 5W+H to human saga

There are two types of scam, upper caste and lower caste. The latter kind is more visible.

Arundhati has got it all wrong—the facts speak out against her romantic notions of the tribals’ fight

He’s master of his domain. But what would Modi do in a House so riven?

Under permanent curfew in Kashmir, with no means of communication, no avenue to express protest and no voice in decision-making, we have made it easy for our enemies to say that we are an occupying power.

The drip-drip-drip of losses inside, much higher in volume, continues to bleed us without any effort to bandage or to examine the wound.

Those who chafed at the idea of special status are satisfied that the only Muslim majority state of India is now a union territory, ruled directly by Delhi.

After the violence in Punjab, Congress legislated the Terrorism and Anti-Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, known as TADA. The law existed for almost a decade, and thousands of people -- most of them Muslims and Sikhs -- were arrested and jailed under it.

Four missions to Mars are being planned next year by various agencies. Why so many together? The reason is that Mars and Earth come closest to each other once every 26 months and 2020 is when this happens next.

On July 22, India will send its first spacecraft to the moon and will become only the fourth nation to be able to reach the moon after America, Russia and China.

The restaurants look the same as they did two or three decades ago and though the traffic has increased, there is very little other visual sign of change or economic progress.

The one change that has come by our way as a nation is that we have become more easily communal in our expression as a nation. Today the political parties and the mass media we can say things, reckless things, that they perhaps hesitated from saying before 1992.