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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 history of Kabir criticism shows how identity has colonised scholarship...
Tue, Jun 29, 2010Buck stops with an EGOMSubscriber Only
June 18, 2010 03:35 IST
The way the government uses empowered groups of ministers is unsettling...
Fri, Jun 18, 2010Caught in courtSubscriber Only
June 10, 2010 02:01 IST
Bhopal gas case reframes grave questions for the judiciary...
Thu, Jun 10, 2010The backbencherSubscriber Only
June 03, 2010 01:26 IST
The UPAs report card reveals its listlessness and shrunken ambitions...
Thu, Jun 03, 2010The young and not-so-boldSubscriber Only
May 27, 2010 23:14 IST
If younger politicians have less power,it is because they dont take risks
Thu, May 27, 2010My caste and ISubscriber Only
May 12, 2010 23:26 IST
The decision to,in principle,enumerate caste in the Census is a monumental travesty.
Wed, May 12, 2010Course correctionSubscriber Only
May 08, 2010 22:39 IST
We still have some way to go to fix higher education....
Sat, May 08, 2010Big Phoney ListsSubscriber Only
April 29, 2010 00:03 IST
Below-poverty-line lists are of doubtful value for policy purposes....
Thu, Apr 29, 2010All about usSubscriber Only
April 21, 2010 01:15 IST
The states inability to mobilise expertise and skill sets is costing India....
Wed, Apr 21, 2010Albert Pintos missing angerSubscriber Only
April 14, 2010 02:34 IST
There is a deep puzzle about our current bout of inflation. Why is there not more palpable political rage at what is,by historical standards,unconscionably high inflation?
Wed, Apr 14, 2010Public advisorySubscriber Only
April 06, 2010 01:43 IST
It is not yet clear what the mandate and priorities of the newly constituted NAC will be. Historically,the NAC has been associated largely with inputs into social sector...
Tue, Apr 06, 2010Incomplete makeoverSubscriber Only
March 30, 2010 23:50 IST
The BJP has,for the moment,settled into a path of very modest institutional consolidation. But its political trajectory and prospects remain deeply uncertain.
Tue, Mar 30, 2010Our wonderful quotocracySubscriber Only
March 15, 2010 02:17 IST
There is a constitutional revolution underway. It has long been in the making. But its full logic is unfolding now. This new type of regime it will beget defies classification.
Mon, Mar 15, 2010One-third doneSubscriber Only
March 09, 2010 01:32 IST
The Womens Reservation Bill is a powerful normative signal about the desirability of the empowerment of women.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010Freedoms our defenceSubscriber Only
March 04, 2010 03:48 IST
If we legitimise the taking of offence there will be more provocations,not less
Thu, Mar 04, 2010A super UGC?Subscriber Only
February 23, 2010 03:31 IST
The proposed law to regulate higher education could be a disaster....
Tue, Feb 23, 2010Differently realisticSubscriber Only
February 16, 2010 02:10 IST
The long shadow of terror stalks India-Pakistan talks yet again. And a familiar pattern may be repeated. Complicity of groups in Pakistan will be exposed...
Tue, Feb 16, 2010The rot in MaharashtraSubscriber Only
February 05, 2010 01:04 IST
Dont see Senas outrages in isolation: together,they frame a political crisis
Fri, Feb 05, 2010Our Lode StarSubscriber Only
January 26, 2010 23:56 IST
As these landmark cases remind us,for all our cynicism,our constitutional values have often rescued us,elevated us and made us proud....
Tue, Jan 26, 2010The recovery of IndiaSubscriber Only
January 26, 2010 00:38 IST
Lets grasp the sensibility that fired the Constituent Assembly
Tue, Jan 26, 2010The genteel communistSubscriber Only
January 18, 2010 02:36 IST
Jyoti Basu,the unquestioned patriarch of Bengal politics has passed away just at the moment where the edifice he so assiduously built is showing signs of crumbling.
Mon, Jan 18, 2010How to be anxiousSubscriber Only
January 11, 2010 01:47 IST
The world is creeping back into a state of nervous anxiety over terrorism. The so-called underwear bomber certainly exposed...
Mon, Jan 11, 2010Nationalism is so 2000Subscriber Only
January 01, 2010 02:01 IST
As economics transforms our politics,will we see a smarter idea of India?
Fri, Jan 01, 2010Integrity,not incentivesSubscriber Only
December 29, 2009 03:40 IST
The year draws to a close in a morally unsettling way. The horror of the Ruchika case draws not simply from the original crime and...
Tue, Dec 29, 2009Acts of choiceSubscriber Only
December 22, 2009 03:04 IST
The institutional improvisations of Indian democracy confound predictions and principles. The decision to make voting compulsory in local...
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