Aakar Patel
Read biographyAakar Patel is a writer and columnist. He is a former newspaper editor, having worked with the Bhaskar Group and Mid Day Multimedia Ltd.
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Manto’s review of PC Barua’s Zindagi
So far as I know this is the only film review Manto ever wrote. The film is called Zindagi and it stars Saigal singing some of his biggest hits, 'So ja rajkumari' and 'Main kya janu kya jadu hai'. The film was directed by PC Barua and released in 1940. This #Manto'sMusings #PC Barua #Zindagi
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With our flawed justice system, how can you blame Italian marines?
One of India's most infamous men hangs himself in jail, another is hanged without due process only days before that, and we are angry two Italians are refusing to come back to face trial. Why are we even surprised? If I were the Italians I wouldn't come back either and I #Indian Justice Sysytem #Indian law #Italian Marines #OnOurMinds #Ram Singh
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Top 5 reasons: Why BJP won’t come to power in 2014
The Congress and the BJP have a spread between them at the moment of 90 seats. That is a large margin that will be difficult for the BJP to catch up with.
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What women want: Manto on eve teasing and flirting
Trust Manto to take up a subject as unusual as the forcible interaction between sexes - what we call eve-teasing and molestation in India - and write this long essay on it. What strikes one on reading this pre-independence essay is how playful Manto's mind was before Partition. His title is #Eve-teasing #flirting #Manto'sMusings
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Modi impact: Why India’s students, actors are ‘creatures of the right’
This week I was on a couple of television shows where something unusual struck me. The shows were about Narendra Modi being denied the chance to speak at the Wharton India Economic Forum over a satellite link. The desi students of Wharton had called him to speak to them about development. Some #BJP #Bollywood #ConnectTheDots #Hindutva #Narendra Modi #RSS #Wharton India Forum
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Manmohan Singh, you need to speak to India, not just to Parliament
The PM is competent enough to speak to the people of this country about its economic and social problems. Yet he chooses not to thereby giving out all the wrong signals about the condition of UPA and the state of the country.
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Partition of India: Manto on why Pak never stopped being violent
Manto thought the violent forces that had been unleashed during that period would remain in Pakistan's society, damaging it. In this piece he tells us the country would become increasingly violent unless the matter was taken up. It wasn't, of course, and again Manto shows he is correct. He says #Manto'sMusings #Partition of India #Saadat Hasan Manto
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If Wharton allowed Varun Gandhi, then why not Modi
Wharton should also have stopped Varun Gandhi who spoke in the same conference whose speech is no less vitrolic than Narendra Modi's. However, the Supreme Court ruling will on persecuting police officers and being complicit in the riots will haunt him for a long time to come.
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Believe it or not: Congress is much better in fighting Islamic terrorism
In the eight years the Congress has governed India, terrorism has declined each year, according to data from KPS Gill’s South Asia Terrorism Portal. However we still believe inane commentaries from a media that is convinced the Congress is doing something wrong
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India has become safer under Manmohan Singh
Under Manmohan Singh, terrorism has decreased in India and Indians have become safer. In the eight years the Congress has governed India, terrorism has declined each year, according to data from KPS Gill's South Asia Terrorism Portal (www.satp.org). Deaths from terrorism have fallen from 3259 in 2005 to 804 last year. The #India #Manmohan Singh #Pakistan #Terrorism #WhatThisMeans