Aakar Patel | The Attack on Civil Society in India

April 19, 2022

Speaker: Aakar Patel, Journalist; Author; Chair, Amnesty International India
Moderator: Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor of History

Sponsors: Institute for South Asia Studies, The Center on Contemporary India, Department of History

The Center on Contemporary India invites you to a talk by Aakar Patel, journalist, author, and Chair of Amnesty International India.

Speaker Bio:
Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His works include 'Why I Write', a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction (Tranquebar, 2014), 'Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here', a study of majoritarianism in India and Pakistan (Westland, 2020) and 'Price of the Modi Years', a history of India after 2014 (Westland, 2021). He is Chair of Amnesty International India.