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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 01:15 AM | November 20,2009
The ingress of extremism in Pakistan is as universal as it is banal
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:06 PM | October 29,2009
Nine half-literates are produced by our colleges, by Nasscom’s numbers, for every graduate of passable quality. What is Nasscom’s solution to this?
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:40 PM | October 15,2009
The subcontinent’s Muslim ethos is influenced more by Hinduism than Islam
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:13 PM | September 24,2009
Mayawati is wise in making a monument to her greatness. The demonstration of her greatness will be the monument itself: In India no other evidence is needed
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:07 PM | September 10,2009
Human experience tells us that those asked to work without expectation of reward normally do no work, or do shoddy work. The Gita believes otherwise
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 12:30 AM | August 28,2009
The Brahmin and the Bania still control the economy, but now the Shudra controls politics
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 01:15 AM | August 14,2009
The British left in 1947, and they left too soon. We celebrate Independence Day, but another six decades of dependence as Great Britain’s colony would have been good for us
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 10:05 PM | July 31,2009
Courtship, attracting women towards them, is one new problem that modernity is bringing to Indian men
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 01:15 AM | July 17,2009
Europe’s classical music is trying for us to listen to, and very few Indians like it
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 12:30 AM | July 03,2009
Some characteristics unite Indians. The most visible is our opportunism
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 10:28 PM | June 18,2009
In the years after the eclipse of the Mughals, the British took over the city’s administration, and mercantile Surtis loved them for their ability to maintain order--the traders’ only demand from government
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 12:30 AM | June 06,2009
On 28 February 2002, a mob tore down Wali’s little tomb in Ahmedabad and dug up his grave. Overnight, the road was tarred and now no sign remains. Wali’s grave had stood outside the gate of the police commissioner’s office
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:17 PM | May 21,2009
The Taliban cannot defeat Pakistan militarily. The Taliban will win because what they want is already being implemented by Pakistan
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:46 PM | April 24,2009
There is one brutally tough man in politics, but it is not Advani. This man is cold and emotionless when you observe him talk
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 12:30 AM | April 04,2009
My problem is with the Congress. It has rolled over and died in a state where it should stand up and fight against this hatred from the inside, like Gandhi would have done, and Patel
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