Aakar Patel is a columnist and writer. He formerly worked as a newspaper editor for the Bhaskar Group and Mid Day Multimedia Ltd. Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. He is also Chair of Amnesty International India.
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Books
His books include ‘Why I Write’, a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction (Tranquebar, 2014), ‘Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here’, a study of majoritarianism in India and Pakistan (Westland, 2020), ‘Price of the Modi Years’, a history of India after 2014 (Westland, 2021) and ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’, a guide on why and how to protest (HarperCollins, 2022).
Lets understand his books a little closer
Price of the Modi Years
Aakar Patel, a columnist, essayist, and political pundit, has long been a keen observer of the political landscape. He attempts to explain the data and facts about India’s performance under Narendra Modi in Price of the Modi Years.
Manmohan Singh, Modi’s predecessor as Prime Minister, allegedly predicted that Modi would be a disaster in office. This book will show you how. It acknowledges Modi’s popularity; this is an assessment of the harm he has caused. Since 2014, it has been the history of India, measuring the damage to the economy, national security, federalism, international relations, legislation, and the judiciary, as well as the media and civil society.
Our memories are short, news cycles are short, and happenings are forgotten or misclassified as just episodic unless they are documented, consolidated, and compiled into a record. As a result, this book is a history of our current era.
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Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here
In recent years, India has made such a dramatic turn that the country’s very centre has shifted significantly. What caused this yawn? Is it feasible to follow the road that led you to this point? Is there a way to return to our Constitution’s just, secular, and inclusive vision?
With its inclusive Constitution and functional democracy, this country has long been an outlier in its South Asian neighbourhood. In some ways, the rise of Hindutva aligns India with the other polities in the region. Aakar Patel, a writer and activist, peels back layer after layer of cause and effect throughout independent India’s history to explain how Hindutva came to have such a stronghold on the country in his book Our Hindu Rashtra.
Save India from its Leaders (Why I Write: Essays by Saadat Hasan Manto):
Following the Supreme Court’s judgment prohibiting the use of firecrackers in the run-up to the Diwali holiday in Delhi and the National Capital Region, a furious debate erupted regarding tradition vs. modernity, as well as preserving people’s right to breathe. Saadat Hasan Manto is at his comical best in this wonderful article, which underlines the same issue that raged 70 or more years before this one — about firecrackers!
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