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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:30 PM | May 25,2012
Because it is overly emotional and obvious, Indian cinema holds no appeal for the outside
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 08:10 PM | May 18,2012
The flexibility has kept India democratic, and it is a Congress trait. The party also represents the middle-class consensus which views India as a great civilizing force, and seeks a nurturing of India’s cultural aesthetic
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 08:03 PM | May 11,2012
The Patel is seen by his fellow Gujaratis as kind-hearted but quick to violence. In mutilating little Muslim girls and boys, Patels think they’re honouring their hero Vallabhbhai
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 11:16 PM | April 26,2012
The right to education will change future generations, will make them better than us
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:23 PM | April 20,2012
Does India have a dynasty problem? Writer Patrick French researched this for a chapter in his last book (India: A Portrait He found that 37.5% of Congress MPs had a previous family connection to politics
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:04 PM | April 06,2012
One community played a significant role in helping the British take over the country’s administration
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 01:15 AM | March 31,2012
The south’s urban culture is more intellectual and much more tolerant
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:38 PM | March 09,2012
Muslims in both India and Pakistan think Qadianis are apostates, betrayers of Islam, what is called murtadd in Arabic
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:24 PM | March 02,2012
Pakistanis get their news from local channels but their entertainment from Indian channels
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:17 PM | February 24,2012
Jawahar is Arabic for jewel. Nehru shares his name with Gandhi’s comrade in the Khilafat movement, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, after whom Mumbai’s Mohammad Ali Road is named
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 12:48 AM | February 20,2012
The name Khan advertises its Afghan ancestry, but none of Bollywood’s Khans look Pashtun and all are quite short. A few years ago the newspaper I then worked for measured the popularity of the three Khans
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Reply to All | Aakar Patel 09:50 PM | February 03,2012
It is difficult to explain to Indians the wrongness of collective punishment. This is because our identity is collective, and so is our behaviour
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:36 PM | January 27,2012
The Bharat Ratna is an award our leaders give one another. Twenty-three of our 41 Bharat Ratnas are Indian politicians
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 10:03 PM | January 13,2012
Historian Ramachandra Guha has sent down his pronouncement on Manmohan Singh. Writing in The Telegraph, he dismisses Khushwant Singh’s view that Singh is the best prime minister we’ve ever had
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Reply To All | Aakar Patel 09:28 PM | January 06,2012
One of the first pieces of music I heard as a child was his lovely composition in the morning raga, Bilawal. It is interesting to me because it is one of the very few ragas with an Islamic name
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