Aakar patel biography books

Indian activist and author

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]

Early life

Patel was born in a lower middle class Hindu family in Surat, Gujarat.^[5] He grew up in a conservative environment. He later moved to Mumbai in search of a job and started working.

Subsequently, he returned to his native place to join for a short stint as the editor in chief of a Gujarati newspaper Divya Bhaskar.^[6]

Patel has worked with several Ind Amazon.com: Aakar Patel: books, biography, latest update XUTOW