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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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They are contemptuous of the very institutions that give them authority
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What Bihar needs is a targeted attack on specific bottlenecks,not another legal status
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March 12, 2013 00:02 IST
And India is neither feared nor loved in South Asia
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Unless there are signs that we are reinventing the state,all promises will prove illusory
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The cabinet reshuffle is an odd combination of brazenness and caution
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The paradigm shift in welfare needs as much public debate as corruption
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Kejriwal is the symptom of a suffocating system,not the cause of its decline
Wed, Oct 17, 2012
Commerce Ministry seeks foreign service of its ownSubscriber Only
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The commerce ministry has moved to create its own foreign service in a bid to extend its control over foreign trade and economic affairs
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Hobsbawm resisted the idea that utopian visions contained the seed of their own destruction
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Why is the US being seen as an idealistic outlier on free speech?
Thu, Sep 27, 2012Not reform vs populismSubscriber Only
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Its easier to taint the opponent than to stake out an economic ideology
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Our biggest economic challenge: to talk ourselves out of the lies fed by government
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Coal crisis,Gujarat verdict,Sahara ruling: politicians,big business now feel the heat
Thu, Sep 06, 2012The quicksand of casteSubscriber Only
August 28, 2012 01:26 IST
Should the ambit of reservation be expanded? An open letter to Dalit friends
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In the long run,the CAG reports will make government stronger,not weaker: it will be forced to ask the right questions.
Mon, Aug 20, 2012Fathers,who art in heavenSubscriber Only
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Mohandas,Subhas,Jawaharlal,Bhimrao chat about India at 65
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Like gurus trying to fix politics,we scramble for visibility by exceeding our roles
Fri, Aug 10, 2012Lost in the shuffleSubscriber Only
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Govt plays political merry-go-round,instead of sending a message of change
Thu, Aug 02, 2012The Anna excuseSubscriber Only
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Politicians use weaknesses of his movement to avoid a clean-up
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A GDP number is a harbinger of social revolution. That makes Indias elites skittish
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As India has grown in power,there is a curious lack of intellectual self-confidence
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