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ARTICLES BY REPLY TO ALL | AAKAR PATEL

Offbeat: Journalist Jeffrey Bernard and his wife. Photo: Keystone/Getty Images

When in a news coverage famine...

5 min read . 08 Sept 2012

Wet land: Frolicking in the rains, a common Mumbai sight. Photo: Sattish Bate/Hindustan Times

The monsoon that we might have lost

4 min read . 17 Aug 2012

Policemen in Mumbai with their .303 guns after the attack on The Taj Mahal Palace hotel. Photo: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP

The Indian Army’s .303 story

4 min read . 10 Aug 2012

History repeats: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(Sanjeev Verma/Hindustan Times)

In defence of MS

4 min read . 27 Jul 2012

Man of many parts: Mirza has directed films, the famous TV serial Nukkad and many documentaries about India. Photo by Santosh Nagwekar/Fotocorp.

Saeed Mirza: a seeker, storyteller and friend

6 min read . 29 Jun 2012

Revolutionary road: Even his fan Dilip Kumar once said that Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry can be difficult to understand. Photo: AFP

Mir, Ghalib, Iqbal, Faiz. The list isn’t complete

5 min read . 09 Jun 2012

In the dock: Patels comprise a large number of those convicted in the Gujarat riot cases. Photo: AFP

Patels have let down Vallabhbhai

5 min read . 11 May 2012

All in the family: Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and Indira Gandhi were the first two of three generations of Indian prime ministers. (Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Our system of dynasty is not problematic

5 min read . 20 Apr 2012

Partners in war: Popular narrative believes Robert Clive colluded with Mir Jafar to win the Battle of Plassey. Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty images

Blame the British Raj on bankers

7 min read . 06 Apr 2012

Talk time: Hamid Mir (right) before his talk show Capital Talk goes on air on Geo TV. Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/ Getty Images

Allah on prime time

6 min read . 02 Mar 2012

Mr Popular: The most interesting and charismatic of the Khans is Salman (Sattish Bate/Hindustan Times)

The men behind our stars

7 min read . 20 Feb 2012

Mob mentality: A scooter is set on fire in Ahmedabad in November 2003. Photo: AFP

Learnt in Godhra, forgotten in Jaipur

6 min read . 03 Feb 2012

It’s just not cricket: Sachin Tendulkar with teammates after last year’s World Cup. Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Why Sachin shouldn’t get the Bharat Ratna

4 min read . 27 Jan 2012

Tough act: Newsweek magazine called him ‘the leader other leaders love’. (Feng Li/Getty Images)

The shallow middle-class contempt for Singh

6 min read . 13 Jan 2012

Prison diaries: Actor Sanjay Dutt (in white striped shirt) coming out of Pune’s Yerwada jail along with his lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, in 2007 after getting bail. Photo: Ritesh Uttamchandani / Hindust

The dramatis personae of courtroom dramas

7 min read . 09 Dec 2011

Playing in the shadows of the arc light

5 min read . 10 Nov 2011

Orator: In his speeches, Modi speaks a Gujarati purged of Persian words. Amit Dave/Reuters

Everything you need to know about Narendra Modi

9 min read . 29 Sept 2011

Meeting of minds: The Vedic wedding rituals did not place the bride in a position subordinate to the groom. Photo by Divya Babu/Mint

Vedic rituals recognize the marriage of equals

5 min read . 01 Sept 2011

Poetic wit: Ghalib was the rare great poet who could laugh at himself, Painting by Shubnum Gill/Flickr.com/photos/shubnumgill

The magical lyricism of Urdu

10 min read . 26 May 2011

Poetic wit: Ghalib was the rare great poet who could laugh at himself, Painting by Shubnum Gill/Flickr.com/photos/shubnumgill

The magical lyricism of Urdu

10 min read . 26 May 2011