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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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This moment in presidential race throws up the worst of coalition politics
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Our quota scheme has no coherent answers even for basic questions
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Caught in a moment of transition,Indias elites are revealing feet of clay
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BJP is,for all practical purposes,a collection of six or seven state parties
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Parliament is now a body of fragile selves. They wont draw a sword for liberty
Wed, May 16, 2012
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An intelligent,sharply observed,often mordantly witty tour dhorzion of several emerging economies
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Corruption creates a social culture that assumes every dark corner is hiding secrets
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Court settles the class issue,but the real challenges of RTE have to be met
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Crossfire over Heehss work says much about our public culture of readership
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A medieval mindset infects your party and government
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March 26, 2012 03:22 IST
How meanings change. Heres the revised lexicon for our government and economy
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AIIMS suicide,Gurgaon rape: Justice is about how we treat each other
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Verdict in: voters choose empowerment over patronage
Wed, Mar 07, 2012Do not disagreeSubscriber Only
February 29, 2012 03:18 IST
Blaming NGOs reveals the diminishing space for dissent in our democracy
Wed, Feb 29, 2012Between anti and proSubscriber Only
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Delhi cannot afford to look at Iran,Israel and the US through the old prism
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February 10, 2012 03:38 IST
The 2G orders are internally inconsistent,and downplay ministerial and cabinet responsibility
Fri, Feb 10, 2012Governance after 2GSubscriber Only
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Drawing the right institutional lessons from the Supreme Courts judgments
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This clamour for right to reject is a muddled response to electoral issues
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Is it the obdurate state striking back? Is it a turf war? It looks like both
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The instinct to censor only emboldens those who attack free speech
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He was at the centre of the many intellectual currents that made modern India possible
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