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Business News > Mint Authors > Prayaag Akbar

Prayaag Akbar

ARTICLES BY PRAYAAG AKBAR

The Statue of Unity in Narmada district of Gujarat. Photo: AP

Lounge Original: ‘The Twenty-Sixth Giant’ by Prayaag Akbar

10 min read . 29 Dec 2018

Friedrichs makes several compelling arguments, though his thesis on Hindu-Muslim harmony does not entirely hold. Photo: Subrata Biswas/Hindustan Times

Lessons on communal harmony

5 min read . 19 Oct 2018

My latest running fantasy? Me at a piano and my little boy shredding the guitar. Photo: iStock

Opinion | Running with my smaller self

7 min read . 06 Oct 2018

Actor and comedian Mindy Kaling played an ob-gyn in the romantic comedy television series ‘The Mindy Project’.

The doctor will see you now

5 min read . 02 Sept 2018

RSS volunteers at a camp in Shimla last year.

The changing faces of the ‘Sangh parivar’

5 min read . 31 Aug 2018

I hope my son has some of his grandfather’s spirit, a kind of untiring cheerfulness that I’d never come so close to before. Photo: iStock

Little boy blue and the man on the moon

4 min read . 03 Aug 2018

The early experience of fatherhood is mostly that of rejection. Photo: iStock

Nipples, rejection and gift-wrapped Huggies

5 min read . 06 Jul 2018

Goran Ivanisevic acknowledges the crowd after winning the men’s singles final at Wimbledon in 2001. Photo: Getty Images

When DD News ruined Goran Ivanisevic’s greatest

5 min read . 30 Jun 2018

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane while announcing his resignation in Madrid on 31 May, just days after winning the Champions League for the third year in a row. Photo: AFP

The legend of Zidane Jayakumar Gourishetty

5 min read . 09 Jun 2018

Julian Barnes. Photo: AFP

Julian Barnes’ new novel is about the burden of an impossible love

5 min read . 04 May 2018

Jean Seberg in her New York Herald Tribune shirt in ‘Breathless’—one of several cameos made by newspapers in Jean-Luc Godard’s classic 1960 film.

Year-End Special: Editors over algorithms

6 min read . 29 Dec 2017

$Vallabhbhai Patel’s politics was not fractured in the way that it is sometimes now portrayed. Photo: Hindustan Times$ Premium

Sardar Patel: An unexamined life

12 min read . 11 Apr 2015

Three among the dozens of Kashmiri students who were expelled from their university under sedition charges because they cheered for the Pakistani cricket team during a televised match against India. Photo: Reuters

Lounge Opinion | Cricket match nationalism

8 min read . 10 Mar 2014

Dasgupta’s book is an exploration of the ways in which Delhi society has changed since the economic liberalization of 1991. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Book Review | Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

4 min read . 18 Jan 2014

Imaging by: Jayachandran & Manoj Madhavan/Mint

New Media | #Feku vs #Pappu: The year we subverted social media

8 min read . 29 Dec 2013

BJP’s stance on most issues of personal freedom is shaped by a determined religious nationalism. Photo: Prabhas Roy/Hindustan Times

Lounge Opinion | Why 377 is not an election issue

5 min read . 19 Dec 2013

Jama Masjid during Ramzaan. Chetan Bhagat postitions himself as a young Indian Muslim angry at his exclusion from the mainstream capitalist, neoliberal project. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Why Chetan Bhagat shouldn’t speak for Indian Muslims

6 min read . 01 Jul 2013

Rape is the work of the unknown outsider, so self-correction is the last of our concerns. But self-correction is what is most urgently needed. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint (Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Why you shouldn’t call Delhi our ‘rape capital’

6 min read . 19 Dec 2012