Tag: Aakar Patel

Just before the 2014 election, two of India’s most famous economists had a public quarrel. Because they were academics the ...

What sort of India is the present generation growing up in and what will they live through? I am over ...

This morning has brought the headline ‘People are free to choose their religion: Supreme Court’. The report was about a ...

I finished writing a book called the ‘Price of the Modi Years’ a few days ago. It should be published ...

I wrote a book that came out a few months ago. The problem with writing books in India, especially non-fiction ...

One of the problems of writing in these times is that little makes sense. There is no real connection to ...

The BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. It is hard to see why it ...

In 2020, the Modi government decided to improve India’s standing on various indices that showed a deterioration in governance. These ...

The Washington Post’s editorial board has written that India’s claim of being a democracy should be put in question. This ...

The price of petrol has crossed Rs 100 in parts of India for the first time. A parallel development is ...