Stories from Aakar Patel
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Should Indian states be smaller?
It is remarkable that people say India should have a smaller government. Numbers show the problem to be the opposite.
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Redistribution and growth
The baniya is excellent at accumulating capital but not particularly good at giving it away.
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India’s party of anger
The way to understand the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to see it as India’s party of anger.
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Modi’s one-man rule
Under Modi in Gujarat consultation has ended. Modi decides something and instructs the bureaucracy to implement it.
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Working with Modi
I have seen the ability of Modi to pick and choose, empower able technocrats & bureaucrats. He has keen eye for that.
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The opening up of the BJP
Modi's power comes from the cadre of both the BJP and the RSS and the groundswell that has opened up the system.
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Modi, the BJP and the Bihar fiasco
If BJP-Janata Dal alliance did not exist, BJP would be poorer for it, because castes it brings to the table are small.
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Advani and the rise of Modi
Through all the years that Modi built his image at the cost of others in the BJP, Advani was silent.
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The Congress’s flawed strategy
Congress strategy in the state has been not to insist on full-dress secularism but to ignore what was going on there.
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Gavaskar’s shameful silence
Over the years, especially after Gavaskar retired, I knew that my hero was not perfect.