The schoolgirl Malala shot in the face by the Taliban explains in her book the view that the West created Al-Qaeda and the monsters of recent terrorism. This equivalence is popular with Western liberal terror apologists too ‘we brought it on...
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20th May 2024 | Updated at 07:17am 20th May 2024
Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: The UK India Tech Exchange
- 13 Mar 2024
On the panel as Dealmaker in the Department for Business and Trade, in the Indian High Commission and FICCI event, I am looking for in the Global Entrepreneur Programme scale up companies whose founders would be suitable for the UK Innovator...
Alpesh Patel’s Political Sketchbook: This Is India’s Sparta – Karamsad
- 14 Feb 2024
Independent minded and giving strength to the rest of the nation is what the Spartans were known for.
I was recently in Singapore - a financial centre made famous by the trader Nick Leeson.
This week as the UN General Assembly convenes, the British PM speaks of stronger borders in Europe and Donald Trump talks of stronger borders to prevent Syrians entering, we recall Uri and the terrorist attack on the world’s largest democracy,...
One of my companies is using British brainpower to create within our British company trading algorithms
- 13 Sep 2016
Hindus should not marry Sikhs in a Sikh Temple. You should not drink in front of a Muslim. You should not eat pork in front of a Jew, or Muslim. You should not eat beef in front of a Hindu. Agree? Disagree? What if your conduct causes me religious...
As a politician said, indeed a President of the United States, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who...
Speaking to dozens of Indian entrepreneurs – the real ones who have startups not the multi-nationals, the ones most likely to be affected by Brexit, the ones without political connections – this is what I found from my trip to Pune, Mumbai,...
I write to you as a ready to fly to India, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad. This morning Trump again has spoken of protecting borders.
- 09 Aug 2016
Over this past decade I have been fortunate enough to visit the home in Delhi where Gandhiji spent his final day, the home in Gujarat where Sardar Patel was born, and thanks to flights delays rewatch Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi on my...
August is the month of India’s Independence. But India had two wars of Independence. The one that was meant to be non-violent and against Britain and ended in 1947. And the other that was very violent and alongside Britain and ended in 1945.
