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|image        = Vinay Patel.jpg
|image        = Vinay Patel.jpg
|job title    = [[Writer]]
|job title    = [[Writer]]
|story        = ''[[Demons of the Punjab (TV story)|Demons of the Punjab]]'', ''[[Letters from the Front (short story)|Letters from the Front]]'' & [[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]
|story        = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Demons of the Punjab (TV story)|Demons of the Punjab]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Letters from the Front (short story)|Letters from the Front]]''|[[TV]]: ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]''}}
|time          = 2018-19
|time          = 2018-2020
|non dwu      = ''True Brits'', ''Murdered by My Father'', ''Good Karma Hospital'', ''Sticks and Stones''
|non dwu      = ''True Brits'', ''Murdered by My Father'', ''Good Karma Hospital'', ''Sticks and Stones''
|imdb          = 3481180
|imdb          = 3481180
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'''Vinay Patel''' wrote the television stories ''[[Demons of the Punjab (TV story)|Demons of the Punjab]]'', for [[series 11 (Doctor Who)|series 11]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and co-wrote ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'' for [[series 12 (Doctor Who)|series 12]] with [[Chris Chibnall]].
'''Vinay Patel''' wrote the television stories ''[[Demons of the Punjab (TV story)|Demons of the Punjab]]'', for [[series 11 (Doctor Who)|series 11]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', and co-wrote ''[[Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)|Fugitive of the Judoon]]'' for [[series 12 (Doctor Who)|series 12]] with [[Chris Chibnall]].


He was the second [[person of colour]] to contribute a script to ''Doctor Who'' (in release order), after [[Malorie Blackman]].
With ''Demons of the Punjab'', he became the second [[person of colour]] (in broadcast order) to contribute a script to ''Doctor Who'', after [[Malorie Blackman]]. Patel's ''Doctor Who'' debut focused on the [[Partition of India]] in [[1947]]. He told ''[[Radio Times]]'':
 
Patel's ''Doctor Who'' debut focused on the [[Partition of India]] in [[1947]]. He told ''[[Radio Times]]'':
{{simplequote|If there was one thing keeping me up at night more than anything, it was figuring out how to tell this story in a way that didn’t feel like it was disrespectful of the seriousness of it. [...] I feel we did a good job of making this episode the story of the people who are our guest characters, and that felt important of me: to give them the balance of the episode.<ref name="RadioTimes" />|Vinay Patel<ref name="RadioTimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-11/doctor-who-series-11-episode-6-partition-of-india-history-demons-of-the-punjab/|title=What happened during the partition of India?|author=Bond, Kimberley|date of source=11 November 2018|website name=RadioTimes|accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref>}}
{{simplequote|If there was one thing keeping me up at night more than anything, it was figuring out how to tell this story in a way that didn’t feel like it was disrespectful of the seriousness of it. [...] I feel we did a good job of making this episode the story of the people who are our guest characters, and that felt important of me: to give them the balance of the episode.<ref name="RadioTimes" />|Vinay Patel<ref name="RadioTimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-11/doctor-who-series-11-episode-6-partition-of-india-history-demons-of-the-punjab/|title=What happened during the partition of India?|author=Bond, Kimberley|date of source=11 November 2018|website name=RadioTimes|accessdate=11 November 2018}}</ref>}}


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