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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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Revolutionary Road
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 Anxiety
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, 2016
A journey to the essenceSubscriber Only
January 11, 2016 00:02 IST
We need to engage with Abhinavagupta to find a language in which to articulate our experience.
Mon, Jan 11, 2016
The recovery of idealismSubscriber Only
January 01, 2016 00:00 IST
It cannot happen where language is corroded, resentment is paramount. In 2016, let’s reset ourselves.
Fri, Jan 01, 2016
Turning Back the Page: The stand-out books of the year 2015
December 26, 2015 00:38 IST
From a history of Rome to a monograph on Ashoka and a masterful biography of Edmund Burke, the stand-out books of the year examined the intersection of morality and politics.
Sat, Dec 26, 2015
Upside down stateSubscriber Only
December 25, 2015 00:51 IST
We seem happy to hollow out the public sector where we shouldn’t and regulate the private in harmful ways.
Fri, Dec 25, 2015
The coming stormSubscriber Only
December 19, 2015 00:05 IST
Political, economic and institutional dysfunction threatens to cloud India’s prospects
Sat, Dec 19, 2015
Book review – Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
December 11, 2015 23:24 IST
The first volume of Niall Ferguson’s biography of Henry Kissinger would have served its subject better if he had submitted him to a Kissingerian analysis.
Fri, Dec 11, 2015
Kathmandu nightsSubscriber Only
December 08, 2015 00:02 IST
Constitutional settlements require a measure of statesmanship and generosity missing in Nepal today.
Tue, Dec 08, 2015
Why every patriot should be worried, and, yes, ashamedSubscriber Only
November 27, 2015 00:12 IST
True patriotism requires you to be able to say that I am ashamed of my country in certain respects.
Fri, Nov 27, 2015
Europe’s challengeSubscriber Only
November 18, 2015 00:21 IST
It is to keep the European project alive — and to find a political solution to the quagmire in West Asia.
Wed, Nov 18, 2015
A vote against hubrisSubscriber Only
November 09, 2015 00:50 IST
Bihar has been transformed from the graveyard of revolutions to a source of new hope.
Mon, Nov 09, 2015
Intolerance protest: It doesn’t take an iota of intelligence to indict Congress on charges of hypocrisySubscriber Only
November 05, 2015 00:01 IST
The Congress is as afraid of coming clean as the BJP is quick to exploit ambiguities on the issue.
Thu, Nov 05, 2015
A lesser evil: Collegium has grave deficiencies, but it compromises structural independence of judiciary lessSubscriber Only
October 17, 2015 00:00 IST
The judiciary came to the conclusion that the NJAC, as currently constituted, would be a threat to judicial independence. It is hard to disagree.
Sat, Oct 17, 2015Journalism of Courage
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