Aakar Patel

Southern Asia

Freelance Writer at Freelance

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Aakar Patel | Palestinians Are Facing Genocide In Gaza: India Must Speak Out

4 days ago | deccanchronicle.com | Aakar Patel

On February 9, 2022, the government was asked in the Rajya Sabha the following question: “Will the minister of home affairs be pleased to state whether it is a fact that India ratified the Genocide Convention (1948) passed by the UN General Assembly (UNGA); (b) if so, whether the government have enacted any laws regarding genocide.” The Narendra Modi government answered: “India signed the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948, on 29th November 1949 and...
India, Gaza and the Genocide Convention

5 days ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

What is our national position and moral perspective on, say, Israel’s actions in Palestine? And how do these square with our obligations in international law?
Aakar Patel | Democracy Must Uplift Any Nation By Empowering All Its Individuals

1 week ago | deccanchronicle.com | Aakar Patel

The project of democracy is essentially about the liberty of the individual. Adherence to social mores and cultural values can be appealed to under any form of government system. Democracy, the culture of it, the practice of it and the spirit of it must lift a nation by lifting its individuals through empowerment. That is what it is intended to do.
India’s trajectory as a ‘democracy’

1 week ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

The dissent of a judge ruling against the State is important because, in a democracy, the judge is authorised to stand up to the State and protect the individualThe project of democracy is essentially about the liberty of the individual. After all, adherence to social mores and cultural values can be upheld under any form of government. Democracy, the culture of it, the practice of it, the spirit of it is to lift a nation by empowering its individuals, enabling each one to be thus lifted.
Aakar Patel | If China Overtakes US As World’s Most Powerful Economy, Will Shift Hit India?

2 weeks ago | deccanchronicle.com | Aakar Patel

The historian Max Hastings had described the Second World War as primarily the death grapple between two gargantuan monsters — Adolf Hitler’s Nazi armies against Josef Stalin’s Soviet forces. The rest, Winston Churchill’s speeches and the American struggle against Japan in the Pacific, was at the most a sideshow and that is true as the nationality of those killed reveals.
A war in all but name

2 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

The great contest of our time is between Trump’s USA and Jinping’s China. The rest of the world is a noisy sideshow, writes Aakar PatelThe historian Max Hastings described World War II as primarily the death grapple between two gargantuan monsters — Adolf Hitler’s Nazi armies against Joseph Stalin’s Soviet forces. The rest, Winston Churchill’s speeches and the American struggle against Japan in the Pacific, was at most a sideshow, which is true as the nationality of those killed reveals.
India’s need for a coherent national security strategy

3 weeks ago | nationalheraldindia.com | Aakar Patel

Without a national security strategy, India continues to respond reactively, not strategically, whether to terrorism or to conventional threatsIndia’s Defence Planning Committee (DPC) was set up on 19 April 2018. It was chaired by national security advisor Ajit Doval and included the foreign secretary, defence secretary, chief of defence staff, the three service chiefs and secretaries of the ministry of finance.
Can India De-Hypenate From Pakistan?

3 weeks ago | rediff.com | Aakar Patel

'We are too important to want to be paired with Pakistan but too intensely connected to it to successfully detach ourselves,' asserts Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Indians in Srinagar, May 10, 2025, react after the ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan. Through the 1990s and up until fairly recently, India insisted on something called de-hyphenation. The hyphen referred to was the one in the term 'Indo-Pak', which is how the world saw South Asia.
NEIGHBOURS: INDIA’S OBSESSION WITH PAKISTAN

3 weeks ago | dawn.com | Aakar Patel

Through the 1990s and up until fairly recently, India insisted on something called “de-hyphenation”. The hyphen referred to was the one in the term “Indo-Pak”, which is how the world saw South Asia. Neither country was seen from the outside without the shadow of the other. American diplomats visiting India, like Robin Raphel, an official in the Bill Clinton administration, would make it a point to visit Pakistan when visiting India to “balance” the relationship.
Why Are Indians So Obsessed With Pakistan? It’s Time Now to ‘De-Hyphenate’

1 month ago | thewire.in | Aakar Patel

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