Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better
3 years, 8 months ago

Aakar Patel | How the world sees India is changing not for the better

Deccan Chronicle  

What sort of India is the present generation growing up in and what will they live through? India’s urban unemployment is at a historic high and, more important, the participation rate of India’s labour force -- meaning those who are employed or looking for work -- is at a historic low. Within India our politics has become dark and election campaigns are run by the dominant political party actively targeting Indian Muslims. Just to give an example from this week, this is what the European Parliament said on April 14: "Members have expressed concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in India, echoing comments by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and several UN Special Rapporteurs. The report also voices alarm regarding India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, which according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is fundamentally discriminatory in nature against Muslims and dangerously divisive.” This text was approved by 61 votes in favour and six votes against.

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Aakar Patel | How India keeps falling in global indices: The issue is governance…
1 week ago

Aakar Patel | How India keeps falling in global indices: The issue is governance…

Deccan Chronicle  

In 2021, I wrote a book called Price of the Modi Years. Freedom House’s “Freedom in the World” index looks at the rule of law, political pluralism and elections, functioning of government, civil liberties, freedom of expression, association and organisation and individual rights. The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index rates nations on criminal and civil justice system, fundamental …

Opinion: Trump 2.0 - Lessons for India's Left
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: Trump 2.0 - Lessons for India's Left

India Today  

With Donald Trump’s recent win in the US, it is hard to miss the parallels with the tactics employed by certain sections of the Left, here in India. By “the Indian Left,” we are referring to a broad coalition of academics, intellectuals, certain media figures, activists, and segments of political parties who often align themselves with progressive social and economic …

Aakar Patel | India, as a UNSC aspirant, should not ignore UN on human rights
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Aakar Patel | India, as a UNSC aspirant, should not ignore UN on human rights

Deccan Chronicle  

The United Nations Security Council has 15 members — five permanent and 10 elected. India has been a member of the UN Human Rights Council for 16 of the council’s 18 years — most recently from 2019 to 2024. India has been the subject of 25 critical statements from UN human rights experts and UHCHR since 2019 — during its …

India's Stunned Response to Pakistan at UNSC: A Call for Action on Minority Women's Safety
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India's Stunned Response to Pakistan at UNSC: A Call for Action on Minority Women's Safety

India TV News  

India expressed deep disappointment and condemnation over Pakistan's provocative remarks and political propaganda surrounding the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council meeting. The Indian Permanent Representative, P Harish, stated that the condition of women belonging to minority communities, particularly Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians, remains abysmal, with an estimated 1,000 women subjected to forced religious conversions and marriages annually. Harish …

Aakar Patel | Of Authoritarianism and Freedom: What the world is saying about today’s India
9 months, 1 week ago

Aakar Patel | Of Authoritarianism and Freedom: What the world is saying about today’s India

Deccan Chronicle  

There was a popular video recently by a young man named Dhruv Rathee, which irked the government’s supporters. Its broad argument may be understood by the title, which was “Is India becoming a dictatorship?” The examples used in the video included the recent rigging of the Chandigarh mayoral election by the BJP, the recent rigging of the panel to select …

Amnesty’s anti-Modi Aakar Patel supports riot accused Umar Khalid: History of biases and compromising democracy to achieve favourable outcomes
1 year, 1 month ago

Amnesty’s anti-Modi Aakar Patel supports riot accused Umar Khalid: History of biases and compromising democracy to achieve favourable outcomes

Op India  

Recently I stumbled upon a post by Aakar Patel on X where he declared that “locking up a man indefinitely without conviction is not democracy it’s tyranny.” It brought back memories of some of his earlier views that may have receded from the public consciousness. Not-So-Attractive Views Aakar Patel’s claim to infamy was his assertion that ‘Gujarati women find Narendra …

Aakar Patel | If you have eyes…The many ways in which govt targets India's minorities
1 year, 2 months ago

Aakar Patel | If you have eyes…The many ways in which govt targets India's minorities

Deccan Chronicle  

Four centuries ago, a British ambassador, Sir Henry Wotton, defined a diplomat as “an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country”. For the first time in our history, we have no Muslim Union minister, no Muslim government MP, no Muslim BJP MLA anywhere in India, and this exclusion does not surprise anyone. Beef lynching as …

Aakar Patel | Kashmirisation' spreads to rest of India: Rules flouted, Internet off
1 year, 4 months ago

Aakar Patel | Kashmirisation' spreads to rest of India: Rules flouted, Internet off

Deccan Chronicle  

Four years ago, when the Kashmir move was made, the columnist Pratap Bhanu Mehta wrote: “The BJP thinks it is going to Indianise Kashmir. I wrote a book two years ago in which this is what was revealed about who was running Kashmir’s higher bureaucracy under the local chief Manoj Sinha. Home and revenue: Shaleen Kabra; finance: Arun Kumar Mehta; …

Ex-India cricketer Aakash Chopra's veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi: 'Fight in…'
1 year, 6 months ago

Ex-India cricketer Aakash Chopra's veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi: 'Fight in…'

Hindustan Times  

Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra on Friday trended on Twitter for his political take in which he did not mention Rahul Gandhi's name but said he was yet to see an opposition leader from another country coming to India and "painting a sorry image of his country". Read | ‘Muslim League secular’: Rahul Gandhi; 'Compulsion to stay acceptable in Wayanad': …

Dubious group screens banned BBC documentary on Gujarat Riots in Australian Parliament
1 year, 6 months ago

Dubious group screens banned BBC documentary on Gujarat Riots in Australian Parliament

Op India  

On May 24, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Australia, a group called ‘We The Diaspora’ screened the controversial BBC documentary on Gujarat Riots in the Australian Parliament House. Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia, he, deputy leader of Greens Mehreen Faruqi and Senator David Shoebridge wrote a letter to the Australian PM and Foreign Minister urging them …

Aakar Patel writes: Karnataka election result shows India’s natural position is in the centre
1 year, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel writes: Karnataka election result shows India’s natural position is in the centre

The Hindu  

Published : May 14, 2023 16:36 IST - 9 MINS READ Ruchir Sharma, the banker and writer, said that India tends to disappoint both pessimists and optimists, meaning that its progress in the long term was not marked by the striking acceleration that defined the economic success of China and South Korea and Japan before it. The first is exclusion, …

Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic dividend lacking
1 year, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel | No. 1 in population, but future is bleak: Demographic dividend lacking

Deccan Chronicle  

New India is again the world’s most populous nation. A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal published an article with the headline “India’s population surpasses China’s, shifting the world’s centre of gravity”. The article explained that India had “added zero net jobs over the past decade” though over 100 million new people had entered the labour force. The Economic …

‘Muslims in India…’: Sitharaman on negative Western ‘perception’
1 year, 8 months ago

‘Muslims in India…’: Sitharaman on negative Western ‘perception’

Hindustan Times  

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman claimed that Muslims in India are doing much better than the Muslims living in Pakistan as she was responding to the negative Western "perception" of India at an event in Washington on Monday. ': Nirmala Sitharaman's fiery retort to 'Muslims being targeted' in India claim Sitharaman arrived in Washington on Sunday to attend the spring …

‘…tarnish India's image’: Dhankhar's jab at Rahul Gandhi
1 year, 8 months ago

‘…tarnish India's image’: Dhankhar's jab at Rahul Gandhi

Hindustan Times  

Launching a veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi for his controversial ‘democracy under attack’ speech in London, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said it is hurtful when people try to bring down a ‘rising India’ in a country abroad. Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Dhankhar said, "It is painful when some people among us try …

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten the future?
1 year, 8 months ago

Aakar Patel | Targeting others': How will it benefit India or brighten the future?

Deccan Chronicle  

Ideologies usually have an end-state or a desired place they want to arrive at. This is what Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, said was the purpose behind the introduction of religion in the Constitution and making God the sovereign instead of Parliament. It is completely unthinkable to us in the India of 2023 that the majority …

Aakar Patel | What kind of a ‘developed’ nation might we be by 2047
1 year, 9 months ago

Aakar Patel | What kind of a ‘developed’ nation might we be by 2047

Deccan Chronicle  

Some things happened last week that require reflection. The “mother of democracy” hosted her children at the G-20 foreign ministers’ meeting. The question that occurs is why does the nation that is already a “Vishwa Guru” need to be on the Security Council? It was a meeting of the foreign ministers and one national newspaper had this headline “G-20 foreign …

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India’s spooks think…
1 year, 11 months ago

Aakar Patel | Dulat memoirs an eye-opener on how India’s spooks think…

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s spies and spymasters do not usually write their memoirs. It is headlined “Wilderness of Mirrors”, a phrase used by another intelligence man describing the “stratagems, deceptions, artifices” used by the Soviets to confuse their opponents. Of his early years, he says that “those were the days that the IB would boast of classical learning that transformed policemen into intelligence …

Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS’ Hindutva politics in today’s India
2 years ago

Aakar Patel | The caste factor and the BJP-RSS’ Hindutva politics in today’s India

Deccan Chronicle  

The 103rd Constitution Amendment, which was upheld by the Supreme Court recently, has been appreciated by our middle class, the core votaries of Hindutva. “Nirakar and Nirgun and all that leads us nowhere.” Idol worship, he said, “does not satisfy us who are full of activity… We want a ‘living’ god, which will engross us in activity and invoke powers …

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals
2 years ago

Aakar Patel | Sardar worked differently from Nehru, but had the same ideals

Deccan Chronicle  

We are in the middle of yet another election cycle and the matter of Jawaharlal Nehru versus Sardar Patel has returned. This newspaper had a headline a few weeks ago, reporting a speech by the Union home minister: “Had Sardar Patel been India’s 1st PM, many problems would not have occurred: Shah”. The key fact to consider in the Nehru …

Aakar Patel | With institutions of democracy undermined, fears for the future rise
2 years, 1 month ago

Aakar Patel | With institutions of democracy undermined, fears for the future rise

Deccan Chronicle  

Last weekend brought the headline “Centre’s silence on judicial postings condemnable: Supreme Court”. The court concluded that the government’s tendency to inexplicably withhold names for months on end without explanation “would see the rule of law and justice suffer”. One retired general, writing his critique of the scheme, said that “the government’s intention is to kill the Army’s regimental system, …

Aakar Patel | Is govt trying to finish off civil society & India’s NGOs?
2 years, 2 months ago

Aakar Patel | Is govt trying to finish off civil society & India’s NGOs?

Deccan Chronicle  

Last Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the words “Urban Naxals” to describe those he said were stalling the construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam. Some people keep at it.” Civil society, he said, was “also upset because I told a few NGOs to give us an account of the foreign funds that they spend here. The changes were in …

Aakar Patel | Protests can’t be limited only to ‘designated’ areas in India
2 years, 3 months ago

Aakar Patel | Protests can’t be limited only to ‘designated’ areas in India

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s Supreme Court has generously allowed citizens the right to protest “in designated areas”. What the Supreme Court has observed or ordered in the matter of Shaheen Bagh doesn’t apply to political parties and more organised forces like farmers’ unions and caste groups. If the Supreme Court kicks the can down the road on habeas corpus, if the home minister …

Aakar Patel | Despite harsh laws, India can’t become a police state
2 years, 4 months ago

Aakar Patel | Despite harsh laws, India can’t become a police state

Deccan Chronicle  

The dictionary defines a police state as “a political unit characterised by repressive governmental control of political, economic and social life, usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by the police and especially the secret police, in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures”. On July 11, 2022, India’s …

Aakar Patel | A benign mask for whole world; fangs bared to citizens at home
2 years, 5 months ago

Aakar Patel | A benign mask for whole world; fangs bared to citizens at home

Deccan Chronicle  

Having been kept busy by the government in various matters, I have not had the chance to catch up with the news much in the last couple of weeks. The first is that India and the European Union refer to themselves as “open and democratic societies”, which “emphasised the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all human rights”. After this, …

The View From India | Looking back at the G7 Summit in Germany
2 years, 5 months ago

The View From India | Looking back at the G7 Summit in Germany

The Hindu  

This article forms a part of the View From India newsletter curated by The Hindu’s foreign affairs experts. Not for a diplomatic feat, but for the government’s apparently contradictory stances on the global stage and back at home, especially in regard to protecting media freedom. At the G7 summit held at the German resort of Schloss Elmau, Prime Minister Narendra …

Modi’s critics have a precarious life in India
2 years, 5 months ago

Modi’s critics have a precarious life in India

Al Jazeera  

On June 16, the Supreme Court of India cautioned the Uttar Pradesh state government against taking punitive actions targeting those who participated in protests over Islamophobic comments made by two Bharatiya Janata Party leaders. Protests against the Act were met with a brutal crackdown as right-wing mobs, led by BJP leaders, rampaged through Delhi, targeting protesters, while police arrested anti-CAA …

Aakar Patel | Anger on streets over Agnipath reflects how New India has no jobs
2 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | Anger on streets over Agnipath reflects how New India has no jobs

Deccan Chronicle  

On the Agnipath/Agniveer issue, the government has again acted first and contemplated the consequences later. And so “Agnipath” joins the farm laws, the CAA and demonetisation and the lockdown on the list of things that the government announces first and then thinks about later. In my opinion, the “Agnipath” scheme will go through and that is essentially because this sort …

Aakar Patel | What govt, BJP must do so that India doesn’t get pressured
2 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | What govt, BJP must do so that India doesn’t get pressured

Deccan Chronicle  

Sovereign nations are those with absolute power over themselves. This comes because of its dominance across a range of things from military power to being the largest economy, its position as the issuer of the world’s reserve currency and its primacy in technology. Russia, though much weaker than America and also weaker than the erstwhile Soviet Union, also is a …

Aakar Patel | From secular to communal: The changing story of India & Pakistan
2 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | From secular to communal: The changing story of India & Pakistan

Deccan Chronicle  

My initial column writing for many years was for Pakistani newspapers. The law enforcing zakat by debiting 2.5 per cent from bank accounts of Pakistan’s Sunnis failed as people withdrew their money just before it was due to happen. But Pakistan’s judges, trained in common law like India’s, were reluctant to pass these sentences and so the laws remained frozen …

Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for decades
2 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | Like Ayodhya, Gyanvapi issue will live with us for decades

Deccan Chronicle  

The issue of the Gyanvapi Masjid in Varanasi has now become live and is likely remain with us for years, if not decades, just as Ayodhya did. This barring of judicial review went against what is called the “basic structure” doctrine, and on those grounds the Places of Worship Act could be struck down. Prof. Mustafa then said that there …

Aakar Patel | If India turns into a Hindu Rashtra, what will it mean…
2 years, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel | If India turns into a Hindu Rashtra, what will it mean…

Deccan Chronicle  

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was founded in 1925 and in three years it will be 100. So a Hindu Rashtra of this type can mandate by law that no non-Hindu can become Prime Minister or chief minister, and that only Hindus can hold certain offices. This type of Hindu Rashtra can also adopt some other discriminatory aspects against its religious …

Aakar Patel | India likely to stay on US list of ‘concern’ on human rights
2 years, 8 months ago

Aakar Patel | India likely to stay on US list of ‘concern’ on human rights

Deccan Chronicle  

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, is an independent and bipartisan US federal government agency. The USCIRF recommended that the US government “impose targeted sanctions on Indian government agencies and officials responsible for severe violations of religious freedom by freezing those individuals’ assets and/or barring their entry into the United States under human rights-related financial and …

Aakar Patel | Why are voters not bothered about economy, absence of jobs?
2 years, 10 months ago

Aakar Patel | Why are voters not bothered about economy, absence of jobs?

Deccan Chronicle  

Another Union Budget has come and gone and for a couple of days we have seen and read what people have to say about the economy. Though fewer people are in the labour market, the number of the unemployed had reached a record of six per cent in 2018 according to the government, and has not fallen below this rate …

Aakar Patel | Listen to what the world says: Step back from the precipice…
2 years, 10 months ago

Aakar Patel | Listen to what the world says: Step back from the precipice…

Deccan Chronicle  

Is it safe for women to be alone on India’s roads and do they feel constantly threatened and fearful of their safety? The Economist, possibly the world’s most respected English language news publication, carried a report in its January 15, 2022 edition headlined: “Playing with fire: India’s government is ignoring, and sometimes even encouraging, hatred of minorities”. The same day …

At UN, India urges nations to recognise 'Hinduphobia'; calls drone attack in UAE 'blatant violation of international law'
2 years, 11 months ago

At UN, India urges nations to recognise 'Hinduphobia'; calls drone attack in UAE 'blatant violation of international law'

Firstpost  

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador TS Tirumurti said the practice of several UN members labelling terrorism into categories such as racially motivated, violent extremism and right wing extremism, will take the world back to the pre-9/11 era Strongly condemning the drone strikes in Abu Dhabi in which two Indians were killed, India has termed the attacks on innocent …

Aakar Patel | Pakistan’s new security policy: How should India respond?
2 years, 11 months ago

Aakar Patel | Pakistan’s new security policy: How should India respond?

Deccan Chronicle  

Pakistan last week released its National Security Policy 2022-2026, a document co-authored by its national security adviser Moeed Yusuf, but acknowledging inputs from several government entities. This was to be chaired by India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval and include the foreign secretary, defence secretary, Chief of Defence Staff, the three service chiefs and secretaries of the finance ministry. It …

Aakar Patel | Are we ready to believe things are not going well with India?
2 years, 11 months ago

Aakar Patel | Are we ready to believe things are not going well with India?

Deccan Chronicle  

Some changes come up on us so slowly that the present generation does not take on the responsibility of the consequences. And, of course, these two are also the major source of carbon dioxide emissions, which we know is a primary cause of climate change. A little warming here and a little colder weather there is not sufficient cause for …

Aakar Patel | From Dec 2019 to Dec 2021: A time of trouble, problems grow
3 years ago

Aakar Patel | From Dec 2019 to Dec 2021: A time of trouble, problems grow

Deccan Chronicle  

This month marks the beginning of the time two years ago when the Narendra Modi government lost its way. On December 11, after Union home minister Amit Shah had assured Parliament a day before that a nationwide National Register of Citizens was on its way, the government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act. Four days later, on December 15, the Shaheen …

Aakar Patel | If Indians focus on trivia, ignore hard reality, the future is bleak
3 years, 1 month ago

Aakar Patel | If Indians focus on trivia, ignore hard reality, the future is bleak

Deccan Chronicle  

The big story in India last week was about what an actress had said about the Independence movement. Earlier in the month, the primary news story here was about a film star’s son being jailed by the Union government’s narcotics agency though he had no drugs on his person. In countries with high life expectancy, low infant mortality, high employment, …

Aakar Patel | Bigotry misfit in modern world: What direction is India headed?
3 years, 1 month ago

Aakar Patel | Bigotry misfit in modern world: What direction is India headed?

Deccan Chronicle  

For many years, I had the opportunity to visit and study Pakistan and also to write for its newspapers. Even today, Pakistan's laws are largely the same as India's and the residents of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar are familiar with things like Sections 420, 302 and 144. The punishments remained on the books but the State, which was a modern …

Aakar Patel | No good news: It's difficult to be an optimist in India today
3 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | No good news: It's difficult to be an optimist in India today

Deccan Chronicle  

It is not easy to find good news in India and has not been easy for a long time now. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview last year offered five points to correct course, but he also added that a course-correction was possible only after one had acknowledged that there was a problem. The MGNREGA programme’s size last …

Aakar Patel | Civil society & NGOs: Why they matter in run-up to 2024
3 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | Civil society & NGOs: Why they matter in run-up to 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

We have entered the third year of the Narendra Modi government and in the months to come the discussion will inevitably turn to the general election of 2024. The term “civil society” refers, according to the World Health Organisation, to a wide array of organisations: community groups, non-governmental organisations, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations, and …

Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other issues
3 years, 6 months ago

Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other issues

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was till Saturday on a visit to the United States. There is concern in the midst of the pandemic about some of these Hindutva policies that could be undermining the secular nature of Indian democracy… Are India’s friends right to be concerned about some of these recent trends?” Mr Jaishankar first corrected Gen. McMaster …

India narrowing differences in UNSC, helped shape discussions on Afghanistan, Myanmar, says Ambassador
3 years, 8 months ago

India narrowing differences in UNSC, helped shape discussions on Afghanistan, Myanmar, says Ambassador

India Today  

India has "been a bridge" in a polarize d UN Security Council, narrowing differences and helping shape the Council's statements, discussions on Afghanistan and Myanmar, pushing for greater meeting of minds to address humanitarian crisis in Syria and focusing on terrorism, India’s envoy to the UN said. With India completing three months as an elected non-permanent member of the 15-nation …

Aakar Patel: ‘Structurally, we have already arrived at a Hindu Rashtra’
3 years, 9 months ago

Aakar Patel: ‘Structurally, we have already arrived at a Hindu Rashtra’

The Hindu  

AT a time when to write itself is often to rebel, the columnist Aakar Patel has made bold to pen Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. Patel, who was the executive director of Amnesty International India until November 2019, reckons that “structurally we have already arrived ” as it does not need any changes in the Constitution. He also busts …

Aakar Patel | India's image in free fall, but govt in denial on real causes
3 years, 9 months ago

Aakar Patel | India's image in free fall, but govt in denial on real causes

Deccan Chronicle  

In 2020, the Narendra Modi government decided to improve India’s standing on various indices that showed a deterioration in governance. A report the next month said the government was “working to improve India’s ranking on 29 global indices, and it wants the message to reach everyone loud and clear”. The way it would do this was “a massive publicity campaign” …

Aakar Patel | As democracy endangered, India's global reputation hit
3 years, 9 months ago

Aakar Patel | As democracy endangered, India's global reputation hit

Deccan Chronicle  

The Washington Post’s editorial board has written that India’s claim of being a democracy should be put in question. India’s brave soldiers like Akshay Kumar and Sachin Tendulkar did not respond to the Washington Post either, as they had done to Rihanna. The Economist, which is the world’s most respected magazine, has carried a headline in its latest issue which …

Aakar Patel | Democracy Index: Why India's rank now falling
3 years, 10 months ago

Aakar Patel | Democracy Index: Why India's rank now falling

Deccan Chronicle  

The Economist is a magazine though it refers to itself as a newspaper. This is mainly, the Economist Intelligence Unit says, because “democratic norms have been under pressure since 2015”, and as a result India’s “global ranking slipped from 27th to 53rd as a result of democratic backsliding under the leadership of Narendra Modi”. “However, there are significant weaknesses in …

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar’s prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses
4 years, 3 months ago

Aakar Patel | Jaishankar’s prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s foreign minister comes from a family of scholars. Subrahmanyam’s son Sanjay, Jaishankar’s brother, is one of the world’s most famous scholars of medieval India. Jaishankar has recent a book released a few days ago which said three things had negatively affected India’s foreign policy. The second was the delay in the economic reforms of 1991: if done earlier, they …

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