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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 election that broke every known rule of Indian politics.
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The other resultsSubscriber Only
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Why the college cut-off system needs to be rethought.
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Will it be cleansing, or deform politics for some time to come?
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CAG audit of telcos raises questions of blunt accountability instruments.
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If a BJP government comes to power, the Narendra Modi issue is going to cast a shadow on India-US ties.
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The point is not that voters want to compromise with communalism for the sake of growth.
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His equations with regional leaders could shape the course of the BJP.
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Here, intellectual engagement transcended identities in the name of knowledge.
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Not only does it produce a vicious politics, it colonises everything else as well.
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A strong leader’s capacity to tolerate dissent is more crucial than his beliefs.
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Is there something about our politics that makes great ministers hard to find?
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AAP doesn’t recognise how much absence of predictability and order also hurts the poor.
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A new democratic experimentalism is in the air.
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Return of the repressedSubscriber Only
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The Ugly Indian and the Ugly American have rediscovered each other.
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