Modi savaged by The Economist written by Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel

In the week that Narendra Modi is travelling to the US, The Economist has carried a negative cover story which will not please India’s prime minister. The weekly magazine’s view is important because it is a conservative, business-friendly publication seen by world leaders as being authoritative on the subject of the economy. It is also seen as not being quick to judgment and that makes its view on Modi particularly damaging.

Conveyance ambitions: a perspective by Aaker Patel

Aakar Patel

There are over 200 trains going from Ahmedabad to Mumbai. The first one leaves just after midnight and the last one leaves just before. So there are trains going through the day to cover the 524km distance.

There is an airport in Ahmedabad from where there are about 10 daily flights to Mumbai. Ahmedabad and Mumbai are part of the Golden Quadrilateral highway network with six lane expressways

Concerns about the Future written by Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel

The media itself has been in the news in the last few days. First, India’s most popular English journalist quit his position as anchor of a pathbreaking show. Arnab Goswami decided to end a decade in which he reformed the way journalism in India is done.

He did this not through reporting but anchoring. The editor of the

Alarming Speculation written by Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel
 Executive Director of Amnesty
 International India. The views
 expressed here are his own.
 aakar.patel@tribune.com.pk

There has been some worrying news on the side of the economy which has remained confined to the business newspapers. It concerns India’s large information technology and software industry and companies like Infosys, TCS and Wipro. These firms, which were expanding quickly for the last two decades, have all slowed down.

They are now growing at single digit annually and even that is a struggle. This has caused speculation that the industry is in a