The writer is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University, where he also directs the Center for Contemporary South Asia at the Watson Institute. He is a contributing editor for The Indian Express.
June 18, 2013 05:56 IST
Does he have a political or economic blueprint for a changing India?
Tue, Jun 18, 2013May 21, 2013 00:19 IST
There is a new moment in Pakistan. India must build on it
Tue, May 21, 2013April 23, 2013 01:15 IST
How could terror breed in the heart of a city so inclusive?
Tue, Apr 23, 2013March 20, 2013 02:14 IST
By permitting hyphenated identities,India has allowed national feeling to increase
Wed, Mar 20, 2013October 26, 2012 03:48 IST
Corruption may be an offshoot of high GDP rates without institutional change
Fri, Oct 26, 2012
October 06, 2012 03:08 IST
Sudheendra Kulkarnis new book takes some liberties with science but the myriad ideas it pursues with erudition make it an absorbing read
Sat, Oct 06, 2012September 24, 2012 02:03 IST
We need retail reform as Indias farmers must be connected to its rising cities
Mon, Sep 24, 2012August 23, 2012 02:07 IST
China has more political and legal space to urbanise than India
Thu, Aug 23, 2012August 14, 2012 00:06 IST
If it keeps growing,it could craft many novelties. But is it overbuilding,and who bears the cost?
Tue, Aug 14, 2012August 01, 2012 01:30 IST
Both the Congress and the BJP suffer from a vision deficit
Wed, Aug 01, 2012July 09, 2012 03:54 IST
Money cant really decide elections. But why does Indias poll finance remain so murky?
Mon, Jul 09, 2012June 25, 2012 01:04 IST
Its electoral chances will depend on how it re-imagines its ideology
Mon, Jun 25, 2012June 11, 2012 03:03 IST
Corruption now threatens to bring down a land of opportunity
Mon, Jun 11, 2012May 24, 2012 02:16 IST
In India,assertion by states doesnt preclude,and in fact nurtures,national cohesion
Thu, May 24, 2012March 12, 2012 03:43 IST
UP,long having put the nation first,may have learnt to look out for itself
Mon, Mar 12, 2012December 31, 2011 01:00 IST
The friction between democracy and markets may be inevitable in India today,and only skilful politics can resolve it
Sat, Dec 31, 2011September 07, 2011 02:01 IST
How Hazares movement is different from earlier transformations and why it might persist,anyway.
Wed, Sep 07, 2011August 25, 2011 01:17 IST
Our cities have been estranged from the electoral space,and under-served by politics. This Lokpal moment is the best time to start healing that breach.
Thu, Aug 25, 2011July 16, 2011 00:16 IST
The problem with the bill is not special protection for minorities. The NAC wrongly assumes that civil servants can solve everything,and that Indias future will be as riot-ridden as its past
Sat, Jul 16, 2011June 14, 2011 01:29 IST
Why we need to be precise in how we define civil society?
Tue, Jun 14, 2011August 03, 2010 02:53 IST
Why Maoists cannot deliver on their high-sounding promises of a better future....
Tue, Aug 03, 2010December 05, 2009 03:10 IST
Does federalism weaken Indias response to terrorism?
Sat, Dec 05, 2009September 15, 2009 02:13 IST
The current debate over partition is radically incomplete. The debate has been framed around Jinnahs desire for a federal but undivided India...
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
June 21, 2006 00:04 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s critique mixes up the difference between an empirical and a normative argument.
Wed, Jun 21, 2006
August 30, 2004 00:00 IST
By presenting her arrest in Hubli as an irreconcilable clash between an Indian’s natural love for the national flag and the inauthentic...
Mon, Aug 30, 2004



