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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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Shiv Sena wants to openly acknowledge that criminality and democracy have been fusedSubscriber Only
October 14, 2015 00:10 IST
Shiv Sena’s real threat is this: It can shift markers of language and public norms.
Wed, Oct 14, 2015
As India stays awaySubscriber Only
October 09, 2015 00:48 IST
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has implications for India’s integration with the world economy.
Fri, Oct 09, 2015
Dadri reminds us how PM Narendra Modi bears responsibility for the poison that is being spreadSubscriber Only
October 03, 2015 00:00 IST
Mohammad Akhlaq’s death is a tragedy. It exemplified the depths of the barbarity that lurks behind the veneer of our civilisation.
Sat, Oct 03, 2015
In thrall to the pastSubscriber Only
September 29, 2015 00:05 IST
Nepal’s constitution inaugurates the new, but it protects too much of the old.
Fri, Dec 25, 2015
A book on how Gita Press became a success in redirecting Hinduism
September 19, 2015 00:00 IST
The book is full of incidental insights across a range of subjects: the Hindi public sphere, the economics of publishing, labour relations within the press, new art forms.
Sat, Sep 19, 2015
Mumbai meat ban: ‘Get off the ban-wagon’Subscriber Only
September 12, 2015 00:25 IST
Meat bans violate fundamental liberties, erode state’s secular character, harm the cause of vegetarianism.
Sun, Sep 13, 2015
The good wordSubscriber Only
September 01, 2015 00:00 IST
Use of ‘development’ as a catch-all represents a shrinking of the imagination.
Tue, Sep 01, 2015
Death and the sovereignSubscriber Only
August 19, 2015 00:00 IST
Santhara judgment is court’s bid to colonise ways in which death can be interpreted and life given meaning.
Wed, Aug 19, 2015
PM Narendra Modi has gone from bully pulpit to counsel for defenceSubscriber Only
August 16, 2015 01:02 IST
An Independence Day Speech is not a Report Card on Government; it is as, the Prime Minister put it, “a dawn of new dreams, and new resolve.” Nevertheless even dreams and resolve need to be credible.
Sun, Aug 16, 2015
Independence ennuiSubscriber Only
August 15, 2015 00:00 IST
Instead of matching idea with idea, leadership with leadership, political adversaries match sin for sin.
Sat, Aug 15, 2015
Loud but silent: Modi’s actions are opposite to the mythology surrounding himSubscriber Only
August 07, 2015 01:35 IST
All indications are, India is fated to deal with another missing prime minister.
Fri, Aug 07, 2015
Yakub Memon’s ghostSubscriber Only
July 31, 2015 00:00 IST
Aftermath of his hanging puts at risk presumptive legitimacy of institutions that mediate social division.
Fri, Jul 31, 2015
Return of the pantomimeSubscriber Only
July 25, 2015 00:00 IST
There is mutual accusation. And no hope of cleansing the system.
Sat, Jul 25, 2015
Nalanda is a syndromeSubscriber Only
July 14, 2015 00:00 IST
The rot in higher education set in long ago. Its politics transcends particular governments.
Tue, Jul 14, 2015
The drummer’s silenceSubscriber Only
July 03, 2015 00:00 IST
Modi must heed the warning signs of his government’s diminishing credibility.
Fri, Jul 03, 2015
All of Indira’s Men and Women
June 27, 2015 00:00 IST
A chilling account of how they ganged up to take democracy away from India.
Sat, Jun 27, 2015
Many little EmergenciesSubscriber Only
June 26, 2015 00:43 IST
We now have a crackdown we don’t see. It’s less ominous, but equally insidious.
Mon, Jul 20, 2015
Lalit Modi row: PM Narendra Modi should speak upSubscriber Only
June 20, 2015 00:20 IST
A government is always one scandal away from losing political control. Narendra Modi should speak up.
Sat, Jun 20, 2015
At risk, in DelhiSubscriber Only
June 16, 2015 00:00 IST
AAP’s diminishing credibility undermines its promise to transform. BJP’s premature panic casts a shadow
Tue, Jun 16, 2015
Army’s Myanmar strike: Governments don’t sing about covert operationsSubscriber Only
June 12, 2015 00:00 IST
Governments don’t sing about covert operations. Our strategic communication needs a lot more maturity.
Fri, Jun 12, 2015
Book Review: Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
June 06, 2015 00:00 IST
With the end of the Mughal Empire and the rise of British power, the 19th century Muslim intellectual had to reimagine his politics.
Sat, Jun 06, 2015
Higher abdicationSubscriber Only
June 02, 2015 00:00 IST
IIT Madras episode shows up an academic leadership that signed the government’s dotted line.
Tue, Jun 02, 2015
K C Sivaramakrishnan: God’s own civil servantSubscriber Only
May 29, 2015 00:00 IST
KCS was the kind of bureaucrat, scholar who is indispensable to modern India’s foundations.
Fri, May 29, 2015
The elusive ModiSubscriber Only
May 26, 2015 00:00 IST
It is hard to take his measure. All the contradictions of India play out in his persona.
Tue, May 26, 2015
Work fatigueSubscriber Only
May 23, 2015 00:38 IST
The professions that defined middle class aspiration are now sites of a deepening discontent.
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