Aakar Patel

Aakar Patel
Patel at a 2016 event
Patel at a 2016 event
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitics
Notable worksOur Hindu Rashtra
Price of the Modi Years

Aakar Patel is an Indian journalist, activist and author. He served as the head of Amnesty International in India between 2015 and 2019,[1] and currently serves as the chair of the Board of Amnesty International in India.[2] He is the author of Our Hindu Rashtra, an account of majoritarianism in India,[3] and of Price of the Modi Years, which examines the administrative performance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In 2014, he authored a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto's Urdu non-fiction Why I Write.[4]

  1. ^ "Journalist and writer Aakar Patel joins as new head of Amnesty International India". The Economic Times. 18 June 2015.
  2. ^ "India: Arbitrary travel ban on Amnesty India's Board chair must be immediately revoked". Amnesty International. 8 April 2022.
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