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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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Lingayat leap of faithSubscriber Only
October 03, 2017 03:04 IST
Their demand for minority status is also a move to construct identities more constricted and rigid
Tue, Oct 03, 2017
Like the Surface of the Sea
September 23, 2017 01:09 IST
When borders become moral rights and the accident of citizenship eats into claims of humanity
Sat, Sep 23, 2017
A few sacks of riceSubscriber Only
September 23, 2017 00:10 IST
That’s what the government’s policy towards the Rohingya boils down to — imprudent, myopic, untenable
Sat, Sep 23, 2017
Inglorious uncertaintySubscriber Only
September 14, 2017 00:15 IST
Government is getting a free pass on the economy, which remains vulnerable to voodoo interventions
Thu, Sep 14, 2017
Skimming the shallowsSubscriber Only
August 29, 2017 00:08 IST
Jaggi Vasudev’s ‘consciousness talk’ shows little understanding of the function of morality
Tue, Aug 29, 2017
Small step, no giant leapSubscriber Only
August 23, 2017 00:00 IST
SC invalidated triple talaq, but majority did not uphold constitutional values over religious belief and practice
Wed, Aug 23, 2017
The too late nationSubscriber Only
August 15, 2017 00:50 IST
Question after Gorakhpur: Is India at 70 too late to recover its own humanity?
Tue, Aug 15, 2017
Reading FreedomSubscriber Only
August 13, 2017 00:00 IST
Tryst with who? What sort of destiny? Seventy years after Independence, the peculiar dignity and anxiety that freedom bestows on us allows us to make or unmake ourselves.
Sun, Aug 13, 2017
Beyond JamiaSubscriber Only
August 08, 2017 00:00 IST
Let’s ask: Under what conditions, which educational institutions need special protection, for what purposes?
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
Old ways die hardSubscriber Only
July 28, 2017 00:06 IST
Nitish Kumar’s shifting sides holds a lesson for the Opposition — politics as usual will not help counter BJP. The larger message for national politics is the opposition to the BJP cannot be built with the rotten materials of the old order.
Fri, Jul 28, 2017
Dancing on the edgeSubscriber Only
July 26, 2017 00:15 IST
India’s internal situation, from Gorkhaland to Kashmir, has become more fragile than it has been in a decade. The Chinese might think it is easier to put an Indian government on the back foot, and in part that seems to be the intention. India has to find that sweet spot where it can signal that it cannot be pushed around easily.
Wed, Jul 26, 2017
The untimely dissidentSubscriber Only
July 15, 2017 00:14 IST
Liu Xiaobo showed that a politics that rises above resentment, that is without enemies, is possible
Sat, Jul 15, 2017
The fires of BengalSubscriber Only
July 08, 2017 00:05 IST
But it will take an act of imaginative statesmanship to make sure that the fires of Baduria and Basirhat do not become the inferno of Bengal.
Sat, Jul 08, 2017
May the silent be damnedSubscriber Only
June 27, 2017 00:10 IST
A big riot would concentrate the mind, make a damning headline. A protracted riot in slow motion, individual victims across different states, simply makes this appear another daily routine. This makes opposing it harder; it makes holding onto the outrage nearly impossible.
Tue, Jun 27, 2017
Enlarge the frameSubscriber Only
June 23, 2017 00:07 IST
India needs to be more liberal and internationalist, and worry less about what the US president thinks of it
Fri, Jun 23, 2017
The power paradoxSubscriber Only
June 14, 2017 00:00 IST
In trying to establish its political dominance, the BJP is unable to manage multiple expectations
Wed, Jun 14, 2017
Presstitute chroniclesSubscriber Only
June 07, 2017 00:05 IST
CBI raids on NDTV are a bigger, more worrying story than just one media house coming under fire
Wed, Jun 07, 2017
The march to spectacleSubscriber Only
May 29, 2017 00:05 IST
Army faces a tough mob in front of it. But it has more to fear from the mob behind it, egging it on
Mon, May 29, 2017
The Mind of the Saints: Speculations around Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Ramana Maharishi
May 27, 2017 02:50 IST
Arun Shourie’s remarkable book on the neurological and the mystical is subversive — and an act of tough love.
Sat, May 27, 2017
On triple talaq, court must say: Religious practice cannot trump modern constitutional moralitySubscriber Only
May 18, 2017 02:13 IST
Underlying the “triple talaq” questions are deeper issues about the nature of constitutional law in India.
Thu, May 18, 2017
Supreme TestSubscriber Only
May 06, 2017 00:05 IST
Aadhaar-related cases could tell us whether our jurisprudence is fit for an age of technology
Sat, May 06, 2017
Iqbal’s wrong turnSubscriber Only
April 19, 2017 01:50 IST
Pakistan is grappling with the boundaries of his idea of religious toleration. India is going down the same path
Wed, Apr 19, 2017
Sinking ValleySubscriber Only
April 15, 2017 00:15 IST
New Delhi’s strategy of containment by force has failed, there is a deepening death wish in Kashmir
Sat, Apr 15, 2017
It’s about US, not SyriaSubscriber Only
April 08, 2017 00:00 IST
America’s strikes aim at maintaining its ideological self-image, not solving a major humanitarian crisis.
Sat, Apr 08, 2017
Yes, bring on BharatiyataSubscriber Only
March 29, 2017 00:10 IST
A deep exposure to Indian culture might cure its custodians of prudishness, machismo, homophobia
Wed, Mar 29, 2017Journalism of Courage
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