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Amnesty India faces sedition charges over Kashmir debate

Aakar Patel, executive director, Amnesty India, said, 'organizing an event to defend constitutional values is being branded anti-India and criminalized'

2 min read17 Aug 2016
News

Engaging the young

India has the world's largest youth population356 millionaccording to the UN. We asked the heads of four non-profits how this demographic is relevant to them

12 min read3 Oct 2015
News

Aakar Patel joins as new head of Amnesty International India

Aakar will give direction to the goal of being an independent, effective and deep-rooted organisation in India, says Amnesty

1 min read18 Jun 2015
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A foreigner in the Harappan ruins

Aakar Patel gets a local ticket on his visit to Harappa

4 min read16 Mar 2015
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Class divide in Karachi

Aakar Patel's latest Karachi trip includes an encounter with arms

7 min read13 Feb 2015
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Aakar Patel | Why I’m not on social media

It is for those looking to be distracted by an inexhaustible supply of material and not those for whom reading is a serious affair

3 min read29 Dec 2013
Opinion

Saheb’s James Bond-style surveillance

One needs to listen to the taped conversations and know Gujarati to be able to properly appreciate what a half-assed operation Amit Shah ran as deputy home minister

3 min read30 Nov 2013
Opinion

Why science is not in our culture

Why are Indians no good with science at the basic level?

4 min read23 Nov 2013
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Remembering Pakistan’s intellectual wanderer

Daud Rahbar was a product of an earlier Lahore that was mixed in terms of religion and culture

4 min read18 Nov 2013
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Are you a ‘pappu’ for propaganda doctors?

An army of 2,000 people is disseminating propaganda for Narendra Modi and against his rivals

3 min read8 Nov 2013
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