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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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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Collapse of trust in examination system amounts to a collapse in trust in system as a wholeSubscriber Only
June 24, 2024 12:41 IST
Exams are a test of a certain kind of skill: If nothing else ambition, concentration, endurance, commitment and character. India’s coaching industry is much derided. But coaching is an inevitable consequence where competitive stakes are high
Tue, Jun 25, 2024
What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma seeks to answer in his latestSubscriber Only
June 22, 2024 15:28 IST
The investment banker’s new book details how lowering interest rates and 'rescuing' failing banks and businesses made the economy work against the poor
Sat, Jun 22, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why the rejection of BJP is not a rejection of HindutvaSubscriber Only
June 14, 2024 19:21 IST
The building of the temple was popular and communalism is growing. But the BJP made the mistake of thinking this could transform into political capital indefinitely
Sun, Jun 16, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on 2024 Lok Sabha election results: Suffocating shadow has lifted, balance restoredSubscriber Only
June 04, 2024 16:05 IST
At the very least, the result pricks the bubble of Prime Minister Modi’s authority. He made this election about himself. But today, he is just another politician, cut to size by the people
Wed, Jun 05, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on ICC seeking arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu: Why we need humanity’s lawSubscriber Only
May 21, 2024 19:19 IST
Reaction to International Court seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders shows international order is beyond even the redeeming comforts of organised hypocrisy
Wed, May 22, 2024
Knife: Salman Rushdie’s temptation of, and triumph over, fateSubscriber Only
April 28, 2024 07:00 IST
The book is an attempt to recover the strength of Rushdie, the person, occluded by Rushdie, the targeted writer
Sat, Apr 27, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Behind student anger in US, three crises — democracy, university, protestSubscriber Only
April 26, 2024 14:48 IST
Protests against the war in Gaza across US universities are a sign of a triple crisis: Of liberal democracy, of the university, and paradoxically, of anti-war protests as well
Sat, Apr 27, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why voters’ silence is making the BJP nervousSubscriber Only
April 23, 2024 16:10 IST
The BJP’s biggest fear is that the palpable lack of national issues makes this a normal election: An amalgam of messy local equations, caste and subcaste politics, organisational rivalries, and opportunistic alliances
Fri, Apr 26, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest: The mask is off, what stares us in the faceSubscriber Only
March 22, 2024 16:31 IST
The government will probably claim that it was simply following the law; that Kejriwal was not responding to summons. But the law was already being applied in a way that was highly discretionary. If you have a government that does not allow the Opposition to mobilise, organise and govern, it is hard to pretend that we are a democracy. The election is already being vitiated
Sun, Mar 24, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: With CAA Rules, excluding minorities by stealthSubscriber Only
March 13, 2024 18:26 IST
At some point, the SC will awaken from its slumber and fully consider the complex issues involved in the CAA. But for now, the government gets to fulfill its promise, and use it as an election talking point, while throwing cold water over the apprehensions of an NRC being used to disenfranchise citizens
Thu, Mar 14, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant pre-wedding: Shaadi No 1Subscriber Only
March 04, 2024 19:28 IST
Publicness of Ambani festivities, move away from traditional reticence of Indian business, represent broader shift in culture
Tue, Mar 05, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: On recent Supreme Court verdicts, hold the celebrationsSubscriber Only
February 23, 2024 07:06 IST
While SC judgments on electoral bonds and Chandigarh mayoral election are welcome, they ought not to merely be an episodic legitimisation of the façade of constitutionalism. They need to be part of a pattern that challenges the consolidation of authoritarianism and communalism
Fri, Feb 23, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Donald Trump’s trial: When the court needs to do the saving, democracy is lostSubscriber Only
February 08, 2024 07:07 IST
It will take an incredible feat of legal finesse, persuasive eloquence and consensus in the Supreme Court to navigate this thicket. But there is no evidence that the Court is capable of rising to the occasion
Thu, Feb 08, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: What January 22 is, what it isn’tSubscriber Only
January 21, 2024 14:28 IST
Ram’s dhwaja has been planted. But the question of dharma is met with a silence
Tue, Jan 23, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In 2024, tough choices for voters everywhereSubscriber Only
January 01, 2024 07:33 IST
None of them show a clear pathway of how we prevent ourselves from sleepwalking through multiple crises. We hope that democracies can engage in an act of retrieval
Mon, Jan 01, 2024
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The collapse of parliamentary democracy in Bharat that is not IndiaSubscriber Only
December 21, 2023 16:26 IST
One might ask, why does the government have to act in such a high-handed manner? It has a parliamentary majority. But as with many things with this government, the impunity is a point: In a democracy attracted by power rather than constitutional form, power will continually need to be projected
Fri, Dec 22, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Gaza is being talked to death, with no remedy to stop the deathsSubscriber Only
December 16, 2023 07:43 IST
We can engage in endless historical counterfactuals. But there is no genuine political movement with a grip on reality to stop this war
Fri, Dec 22, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on abrogation of Article 370 being upheld: Has SC established a dangerous precedent for federalism?Subscriber Only
December 11, 2023 17:01 IST
No one expected the abrogation to be reversed. But SC's judgment lacks the reassurance that it has the integrity to uphold the Indian Constitution, in whose name it speaks, in full measure
Thu, Dec 14, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why Opposition doesn’t have the words or ideas to take on the BJPSubscriber Only
December 06, 2023 14:48 IST
Opposition is struggling to find language and space for a critique that hits the mark. Meanwhile, it speaks to the converted
Thu, Dec 07, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: How Henry Kissinger tricked the worldSubscriber Only
November 30, 2023 15:55 IST
Kissinger was the ultimate confidence man. His ability to successfully pull off the appearance of indispensability made him larger than life, and overshadowed any assessment of his actions
Fri, Dec 01, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: What Israel-Palestine conflict reveals about world leadersSubscriber Only
October 30, 2023 07:55 IST
Israel-Hamas conflict shows governments today are making bedfellows of extremists. States across the world are pushing societies deeper into the abyss
Tue, Oct 31, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: On marriage equality, the Supreme Court stops shortSubscriber Only
October 17, 2023 18:53 IST
There is a quip going around about the current Court: They proclaim values with the high-mindedness of philosophers, thread fine lines on process with the ingenuity of lawyers, give history lessons with an erudition that shames historians. But ultimately, the directions cause the executive no discomfort
Fri, Oct 20, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The opacity of Vladimir Putin and the fate of the Ukraine warSubscriber Only
October 06, 2023 07:13 IST
As the war in Ukraine continues, the Russian leader will remain a problem that needs to be managed — in defeat or victory
Fri, Oct 06, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on new Parliament: India’s age of ambitionSubscriber Only
September 19, 2023 17:40 IST
The infrastructural nationalism that marks the transition to a new Parliament building is symbolic of our times. Perhaps, it can make room for a more representative parliamentarianism
Fri, Oct 06, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Defending Sanatan Dharma without acknowledging the horror of caste is moral duplicitySubscriber Only
September 05, 2023 15:32 IST
Stalin and Priyank Kharge were asking a question: What will promote moral equality? Their answer may not be wholly convincing. But the BJP’s response proved their point
Wed, Sep 06, 2023Journalism of Courage
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