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
November 20, 2013 00:11 IST
Evasion or silence cannot be a response to the surveillance controversy.
Wed, Nov 20, 2013November 15, 2013 00:49 IST
Indias high decibel politics misses a serious engagement with the future.
Fri, Nov 15, 2013November 08, 2013 00:29 IST
The perils of a bureaucratic and legal imagination that disdains politics.
Fri, Nov 08, 2013October 31, 2013 02:41 IST
The South Asia project founders because we dont have the imagination for it.
Thu, Oct 31, 2013
October 23, 2013 04:21 IST
We need to ask why courts efforts to clean up are not bringing clarity,accountability.
Fri, Jan 24, 2014October 08, 2013 04:54 IST
A new party is beginning to open up new spaces of conversation
Tue, Oct 08, 2013October 04, 2013 02:19 IST
UPA didnt make a nuanced case for contesting the judgment on convicted MPs.
Fri, Oct 04, 2013September 25, 2013 05:46 IST
Our institutions have lost the credibility to project the truth.
Wed, Sep 25, 2013September 19, 2013 00:16 IST
Muzaffarnagar challenges ingrained assumptions on secularism and diversity.
Thu, Sep 19, 2013August 30, 2013 03:32 IST
Anti-superstition laws enshrine paternalism,diminish the moral importance of the harm committed and make citizens less responsible.
Fri, Aug 30, 2013August 28, 2013 02:58 IST
Congress has a story around the welfare state. Whats BJPs response?
Wed, Aug 28, 2013August 21, 2013 02:16 IST
Institutional disrepair lies at the heart of the economic breakdown.
Wed, Aug 21, 2013August 15, 2013 02:26 IST
The deeper premises that led to Partition still shape politics in South Asia
Thu, Aug 15, 2013August 07, 2013 05:23 IST
The rot in our institutions stems from individual insecurities
Wed, Aug 07, 2013August 02, 2013 05:18 IST
Debates over appointment of India's RBI governor and US Fed chairman are revealing
Fri, Aug 02, 2013July 22, 2013 04:52 IST
How the big picture is changing,in ten frames
Mon, Jul 22, 2013July 11, 2013 04:26 IST
A story of destructive governance and citizens who did not speak out
Thu, Jul 11, 2013July 04, 2013 00:00 IST
A preliminary catalogue of Delhi's unique biodiversity
Thu, Jul 04, 2013June 28, 2013 01:01 IST
Disaster exposes ways in which our social self-knowledge has not kept pace
Fri, Jun 28, 2013June 20, 2013 04:42 IST
Indian politics is beset by too much consensus,not too little
Thu, Jun 20, 2013June 13, 2013 03:06 IST
Obama's defence of US surveillance implies that rules of civilisation don't apply abroad
Thu, Jun 13, 2013June 06, 2013 03:56 IST
The clamour for accountability could render us blind to other important issues
Thu, Jun 06, 2013May 24, 2013 01:21 IST
Low female workforce participation is an intricate challenge of our time
Fri, May 24, 2013May 17, 2013 03:40 IST
Alarmism on the prospects of a third front will only constrain our options
Fri, May 17, 2013May 09, 2013 01:00 IST
Court has exposed the governing principle: evil deeds are done but there is no doer
Thu, May 09, 2013




