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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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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Trump wants to show the world who is bossSubscriber Only
February 05, 2025 07:11 IST
This is not an era of transactionalism. It is the reinventing of American supremacy by weaponising the discontent with the current order
Wed, Feb 05, 2025
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s delusion of relevanceSubscriber Only
February 01, 2025 06:56 IST
Absolute numbers, framed by a propaganda machine, do not present an accurate picture of India's place in the world
Sat, Feb 01, 2025
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s growth slowdown is a signal of declining confidence in governmentSubscriber Only
January 14, 2025 07:04 IST
Mindless capital expenditure, schemes that fail to address systemic weaknesses, a lack of real reforms – investors may not say it openly out of fear or politeness, but privately, there is a crisis of faith in the state
Tue, Jan 14, 2025
PB Mehta writes: Five vibes — in politics, economics and creativity — that will shape 2025Subscriber Only
January 01, 2025 06:50 IST
These are not predictions; it would be presumptuous to claim omniscience or even foresight. But here are five trends more in the realm of how the world might feel, rather than a prediction of actual events.
Wed, Jan 01, 2025
Manmohan Singh was devoured by populist furies. History is a mean avengerSubscriber Only
December 27, 2024 12:16 IST
Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.
Sun, Dec 29, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In today’s India, can the Constitution protect individual dignity?Subscriber Only
December 18, 2024 07:00 IST
We have a politics that has created the sense of a permanent ascriptive majority and minority, with the latter demanding that the Constitution represent it as a social force. Can we survive this contradiction and keep some semblance of the Constitution?
Wed, Dec 18, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why the South Asian neighbourhood is on edgeSubscriber Only
December 03, 2024 07:28 IST
In a deep ideological sense, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are joined at the hip. India uses the fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh to shore up the claims of a Hindu state, and the ‘India’ card is still a potent defining feature of their identity. But they must remember: State sponsored religious nationalism will always turn authoritarian
Tue, Dec 03, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why Opposition’s ‘democracy in danger’ pitch cuts little ice with votersSubscriber Only
November 27, 2024 04:20 IST
It has to show what it can do with democracy.
Sun, Dec 01, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: D Y Chandrachud, a Chief Justice of his timeSubscriber Only
November 12, 2024 04:20 IST
His self-defence on civil liberties was: ‘I gave so many people bail, from A to Z’, rather than the ‘law and process was applied consistently and fairly. Umar Khalid got the same consideration as Arnab Goswami’
Tue, Nov 12, 2024
In Trump, stronger and bigger, America has chosen The Great Disruption. Brace for the rideSubscriber Only
November 06, 2024 15:36 IST
From being written off after January 6, 2020, Trump now owns, not just the Republican Party, but the United States of America. The USA is now Trump country
Thu, Nov 07, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In government and outside, Bibek Debroy remained his own personSubscriber Only
November 02, 2024 02:00 IST
In both partisan alignments, first with Congress and then the BJP, he managed to remain his own person: Self-driven, mysterious, funny, but always industrious
Sat, Nov 02, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s economic credibility challengeSubscriber Only
October 30, 2024 02:25 IST
The trustworthiness of a country’s capabilities is not established by an odd scheme or examples of success
Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Forget West, fossilised Khalistanis, Trudeau’s motivesSubscriber Only
October 18, 2024 20:30 IST
We need to know what is going on for our own sake
Wed, Oct 23, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Haryana shows BJP’s slide is overstated. In J-K, National Conference’s resilience winsSubscriber Only
October 08, 2024 18:16 IST
For BJP, winning a third term in Haryana where it does not have the kind of default cultural identification it has in Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh is no mean feat. J&K results testify National Conference's staying power
Wed, Oct 09, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why the arguments for and against One Nation One Election are flawedSubscriber Only
October 04, 2024 00:52 IST
It is neither a panacea for all that ails Indian politics and governance, nor an apocalypse. Democracy requires a broader imagination.
Fri, Oct 04, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Democracy’s blind eyeSubscriber Only
September 26, 2024 00:37 IST
Suffering unleashed by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon is made possible by complicity of Great Powers, including India. It has high costs
Sat, Sep 28, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on Manipur: The darkness we unseeSubscriber Only
September 13, 2024 07:10 IST
The scale of our indifference bears calling out. BJP's behaviour over the crisis is shockingly bizarre
Fri, Sep 13, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: S Radhakrishnan still speaks to our timeSubscriber Only
September 05, 2024 07:00 IST
As we honour him on Teachers’ Day, we might as well read him, not in the spirit of a nationalistic paean to this or that tradition, but to an open world trying to discover its yet unborn soul.
Thu, Sep 05, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Uncharted territory for India’s governance matrixSubscriber Only
August 29, 2024 07:04 IST
The main driver of the new governance matrix is not the presence of coalition partners, but the BJP's own weaknesses
Fri, Aug 30, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In Kolkata, after the crime, indignitySubscriber Only
August 20, 2024 07:59 IST
On top of the alleged cover-up or incompetence, politicisation is added to a political pantomime where the chief minister plays victim.
Tue, Aug 20, 2024
From Bangladesh’s students, a message: A fighting chanceSubscriber Only
August 06, 2024 18:26 IST
The country is unique in the degree to which students retain the aura of democratic legitimacy in challenging authoritarianism
Wed, Aug 07, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Caste questions for Rahul GandhiSubscriber Only
July 30, 2024 13:00 IST
A public culture where invocation of caste becomes a substitute for serious thinking will not serve the cause of social justice or healthy institutions
Wed, Jul 31, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Cries buried under rubble of Gaza will come back to haunt global systemSubscriber Only
July 22, 2024 16:20 IST
ICJ advisory on Israel’s actions in Gaza highlights how Netanyahu has converted a serious crisis into an existential one
Tue, Jul 23, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The focus on Trump attack, Biden’s age hides a more fundamental problemSubscriber Only
July 17, 2024 19:41 IST
The problem for the Democratic Party is that the focus on the persona of Trump, and the preoccupation with Biden clinging onto power by all means, is obscuring the fact that Trump is acquiring more ideological coherence, governing plausibility and undercutting Democrats on their own terms
Sun, Jul 21, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Collapse of trust in examination system amounts to a collapse in trust in system as a wholeSubscriber Only
June 24, 2024 12:41 IST
Exams are a test of a certain kind of skill: If nothing else ambition, concentration, endurance, commitment and character. India’s coaching industry is much derided. But coaching is an inevitable consequence where competitive stakes are high
Tue, Jun 25, 2024Journalism of Courage
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