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The BJP’s War on NGOs

Apr 27. 12:00-1:30pm. Aakar Patel, Chair, Amnesty International India. “The BJP’s War on NGOs”

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Over 20,000 NGOs have closed shop in India in just the last two years, as they have struggled to function amidst a hostile political climate where arbitrary government actions imperil their operations. Ironically, NGOs have long assisted the Indian government in serving populations that were out of reach to or underserved by state institutions.

Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His books Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here, and Price of the Modi Years were published by Westland in 2020 and 2021 respectively. His translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction, ‘Why I Write’, was published by Tranquebar in 2014. He is Chair of Amnesty International India.

Aakar Patel’s talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, and by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

 April 27, 2022 

Time: 12:00-1:30pm

Presenter: Aakar Patel

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