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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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The great delusionSubscriber Only
June 29, 2016 00:58 IST
India’s claim is not in doubt, but its NSG bid shows machismo more than maturity.
Wed, Jun 29, 2016
Brexit is a revolt of a significant section of England against itselfSubscriber Only
June 25, 2016 01:18 IST
With Britain voting to leave the European Union, we are now entering a brave new world
Sat, Jun 25, 2016
The dead ends of Uttar PradeshSubscriber Only
June 23, 2016 00:08 IST
One way of skirting them in the next polls is to bring trifurcation of the state on to the political agenda.
Thu, Jun 23, 2016
Intolerant liberals?Subscriber Only
June 14, 2016 00:02 IST
Liberalism needs to recover the noble lie that ideas are not politics by other means.
Tue, Jun 14, 2016
Pretext, Text, ContextSubscriber Only
June 11, 2016 01:02 IST
Islam is best explained by investigating its contradictions, instead of wishing them away
Sat, Jun 11, 2016
A Rajan a daySubscriber Only
May 31, 2016 00:15 IST
When government creates a credibility crisis for itself, premium on anyone who looks half-credible goes up.
Tue, May 31, 2016
Contradictions in the Modi government are still muddying its identitySubscriber Only
May 26, 2016 00:50 IST
Modi government’s backward-looking instincts keep pulling down its forward-looking mission.
Thu, May 26, 2016
A BJP-dominant systemSubscriber Only
May 20, 2016 00:04 IST
Now in power in states like J&K and Assam, the BJP will be on test for its nation-building capacity
Fri, May 20, 2016
Supreme Court’s judgment on criminal defamation is the latest illustration of a syndromeSubscriber Only
May 18, 2016 00:01 IST
Our punitive impulses are an expression of deep institutional failure.
Wed, May 18, 2016
Congress after UttarakhandSubscriber Only
May 12, 2016 00:35 IST
The lesson should not be to exult in a moral high ground, but to realise that the party is still tottering.
Thu, May 12, 2016
Game of visasSubscriber Only
April 30, 2016 00:02 IST
India comes across as trying to compete with China by being China. It’s not a winning strategy.
Sat, Apr 30, 2016
After MandalSubscriber Only
April 23, 2016 00:16 IST
A new alignment of incentives and unrest is emerging . It could make reservations an important political axis
Sat, Apr 23, 2016
Revolutionary RoadSubscriber Only
April 16, 2016 00:12 IST
The role of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army in the mainstream national movement and how their moral compass was rooted in non-violence.
Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Circus and breadSubscriber Only
April 15, 2016 00:16 IST
On IPL, to accuse the court of a politics of distraction is to miss the point.
Fri, Apr 15, 2016
The Panama portentSubscriber Only
April 08, 2016 00:15 IST
Angry populism against corrupt elites could grow. But in India, reaction will be muted.
Fri, Apr 08, 2016
The American hugSubscriber Only
April 02, 2016 00:00 IST
Fundamental military alignments with US, taking place without open debate, may foreclose India’s options.
Sat, Apr 02, 2016Privacy after AadhaarSubscriber Only
March 26, 2016 00:00 IST
If this bill with far-reaching implications for rights, accountability and the powers of the state is a money bill, then practically any legislation can be converted into a money bill.
Sat, Mar 26, 2016
Globalisation in questionSubscriber Only
March 19, 2016 00:40 IST
It was undergirded by a set of meta-assumptions, all of which are now being contested.
Sat, Mar 19, 2016
Budget 2016: The triumph of centrismSubscriber Only
March 01, 2016 00:01 IST
Budget confuses government’s rabid rightwing supporters more than it annoys its opponents.
Tue, Mar 01, 2016
The rise of the angry nationalSubscriber Only
February 28, 2016 00:02 IST
Rather than being threatened by currents of world history, India can take any current of thought and make it its own, but in a way that exudes that ineffable sense of being shaped by India.
Sun, Feb 28, 2016
An act of tyranny: ‘Modi govt threatened democracy; that is the most anti-national of all acts’Subscriber Only
February 15, 2016 00:24 IST
Nothing that JNU students did poses nearly as much of a threat to India as government's subversion of freedom
Tue, Feb 16, 2016
Discrimination dialogueSubscriber Only
February 10, 2016 00:00 IST
A starting point could be the doing away of the myth that modernity alone will deal with caste
Wed, Feb 10, 2016
Book review: Stranger AnxietySubscriber Only
February 06, 2016 00:48 IST
Is assimilating the other as xenophobic as excluding him? Tabish Khair explores the link between xenophobia and capitalism in this new book.
Sat, Feb 06, 2016
Reading RohithSubscriber Only
January 23, 2016 00:14 IST
One can only meditate on the deep truth of his letter, its yearning for a space beyond power and rancour
Sat, Jan 23, 2016
Religious quagmiresSubscriber Only
January 16, 2016 00:01 IST
Can elements of a secular morality be enforced in ways that don’t reinforce a sense of state arbitrariness?
Sat, Jan 16, 2016Journalism of Courage
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