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