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Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is Contributing Editor at the Indian Express. He has been vice-chancellor of Ashoka University and president, Centre Policy Research. Before he started engaging with contemporary affairs, he taught political theory at Harvard, and briefly at JNU. He has written on intellectual history, political theory, law, India's social transformation and world affairs. He is the recipient of the Infosys Prize, the Adisheshiah Prize and the Amartya Sen Prize. Follow @pbmehta
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Who do you think you are?Subscriber Only
April 11, 2018 01:05 IST
While identities matter, when they are carelessly ascribed, they become inimical to freedom.
Wed, Apr 11, 2018
A southern discontentSubscriber Only
March 30, 2018 00:07 IST
Increasing alienation between the North and South in political discourse is fuelled by deep cultural anxieties
Fri, Mar 30, 2018
Engineering democracySubscriber Only
March 22, 2018 00:05 IST
Cambridge Analytica fracas reopens the big questions about the organisation of the information order
Thu, Mar 22, 2018
A claim for dignitySubscriber Only
March 13, 2018 01:07 IST
It is morally obtuse and analytically misleading to see farmers’ long march as a demand for handouts
Tue, Mar 13, 2018
Revisiting ShivpalganjSubscriber Only
March 07, 2018 00:14 IST
As it turns 50, ‘Raag Darbari’ continues to tell the story of our politics, its crisis of meaning, with humour.
Wed, Mar 07, 2018
Art of scam managementSubscriber Only
February 27, 2018 00:15 IST
BJP thought it had a huge rhetorical advantage on corruption but after Nirav Modi, it looks like this issue will be a draw
Tue, Feb 27, 2018
India in a corner: Beneath the foreign policy bluster is a great flounderingSubscriber Only
February 15, 2018 00:11 IST
The vigour of PM Narendra Modi’s travels can barely disguise the fact that in terms of India’s security objectives, he is looking very weak indeed.
Thu, Feb 15, 2018
Most credible thing about Budget was government acknowledging its nervousnessSubscriber Only
February 02, 2018 00:00 IST
Trying to be all things to all people, budget seeks to bluff its way on fundamental tensions in the economy
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
The new Dalit challengeSubscriber Only
January 24, 2018 00:25 IST
Pressures of a different Dalit imagination are colliding against strategies of containment of an old politics
Wed, Jan 24, 2018
Do we have justiciable evidence against CJI Dipak Misra?Subscriber Only
January 15, 2018 00:00 IST
The charge against Chief Justice Dipak Misra is serious. But do we have justiciable evidence?
Mon, Jan 15, 2018
A return to realitySubscriber Only
January 01, 2018 00:30 IST
Let’s reclaim a realism about nature and self that our frenzied pursuit of enmities and ends is obscuring.
Tue, Feb 13, 2018
Intellectual Order in a Chaotic World
December 30, 2017 04:00 IST
Reading philosophy, history and violence in 2017
Sat, Dec 30, 2017
Institutions after 2G: The many losers after the judgmentSubscriber Only
December 23, 2017 00:00 IST
Verdict is a reminder that state incapacity may be a bigger issue than active political malfeasance
Sat, Dec 23, 2017
Why the Indian democracy is poised at a moment fraught with dangerSubscriber Only
December 19, 2017 00:00 IST
If democracy is more secure with an effective opposition, BJP victory sends sobering signals
Tue, Dec 19, 2017
Power and insecuritySubscriber Only
December 13, 2017 00:06 IST
PM’s Gujarat campaign shows the politics of hope has been replaced entirely by the politics of fear
Wed, Dec 13, 2017
That fateful daySubscriber Only
December 06, 2017 01:00 IST
Events of December 6, 1992 assaulted both secularism and Hinduism. Consequences are still to play out fully
Thu, Dec 07, 2017
Pakistan’s original sinSubscriber Only
December 01, 2017 00:15 IST
It is its treatment of Ahmadis. It needs to overcome that anxiety to liberate itself on several fronts
Fri, Dec 01, 2017
The republic of cowardiceSubscriber Only
November 23, 2017 00:05 IST
Fragility of community identities spawns politics of intolerance. No one stands up for freedom
Thu, Nov 23, 2017
Poet of luminous silencesSubscriber Only
November 18, 2017 00:00 IST
Kunwar Narain’s passing is also the loss of a whole literary world. He was of a generation of Hindi writers that confidently understood that in genuine culture and thinking there cannot be any boundaries.
Sat, Nov 18, 2017
Supreme Court, diminishedSubscriber Only
November 14, 2017 00:39 IST
The judiciary has created a crisis of institutional credibility for itself
Tue, Nov 14, 2017
Revolution that wasn’tSubscriber Only
November 08, 2017 01:00 IST
Demonetisation was part of a political imagination that is closer to a technocratic authoritarianism.
Wed, Nov 08, 2017
From Lenin to Xi JinpingSubscriber Only
November 02, 2017 00:20 IST
How the Chinese Communist Party has buried the revolutionary spirit of 1917
Thu, Nov 02, 2017
A Tryst with Fury
October 28, 2017 00:52 IST
In the shadow of the modern myth of non-violence lies an ancient and ruthless tradition
Sat, Oct 28, 2017
Bowing to necessitySubscriber Only
October 26, 2017 00:00 IST
The bank recapitalisation scheme reflects government’s failure to transform state-capital relations
Thu, Oct 26, 2017
The new Asian gameSubscriber Only
October 21, 2017 00:08 IST
An authoritarian, assertive China is a challenge for India. But it is premature to conclude that US will be its saviour
Sat, Oct 21, 2017Journalism of Courage
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