We’re better, despite a wrong-headed electorate and an enduring old order
He’s master of his domain. But what would Modi do in a House so riven?
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
Arundhati has got it all wrong—the facts speak out against her romantic notions of the tribals’ fight
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
There are two types of scam, upper caste and lower caste. The latter kind is more visible.
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
Lead us from formula to narrative, from 5W+H to human saga
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
It’s hard to ignore that IM has time and again struck at Gujaratis
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
Friend Jyoti Malhotra scored a pack of cigarettes in the coffee shop at the departure lounge, but they had no matches or lighters.
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
A translation faithful to the original and a sampling of Manto’s rarer non-fiction makes this book worthwhile
BY Aakar Patel 5 February 2022
Like his coruscatingly brilliant stories, Manto was quirky, unpredictable, made of hard and soft edges. These essays, by his literary friends, confirm his genius.
BY Aakar Patel 21 December 2018
Both on the side of issues and organisation, my view is that the BJP is ahead, either because of its strength or the Congress’s weakness, or both.
BY Aakar Patel 3 December 2017
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