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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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Mirror to each otherSubscriber Only
March 31, 2009 17:18 IST
Any sophisticated understanding of politics must not hold politicians up to empty standards of idealism or unachievable coherence.
Tue, Mar 31, 2009Mapping the bailoutSubscriber Only
March 25, 2009 23:17 IST
Postcard from America: why the AIG bonus debate is about more than one company
Wed, Mar 25, 2009Indian Pusillanimous LeagueSubscriber Only
March 24, 2009 15:31 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swaraj Aur Samvidhan<br> In the end one cannot avoid concluding that moving the IPL out reveals so much about Indian democracy.
Tue, Mar 24, 2009Why elections have little to do with who will be our PM?Subscriber Only
March 14, 2009 21:09 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swaraj Aur Samvidhan<br> It is the peculiar dignity of our democracy that anyone can aspire to be Prime Minister. You can be in your thirties or in your eighties.
Sat, Mar 14, 2009Allies like theseSubscriber Only
March 10, 2009 00:44 IST
BJDs split from BJP is indicative of larger trends in Indian politics
Tue, Mar 10, 2009Let the games beginSubscriber Only
March 02, 2009 00:11 IST
The peculiar dignity of this election is voters will have the last word. But the last laugh?
Mon, Mar 02, 2009Rahman,Gulzar and other ArtsSubscriber Only
February 25, 2009 12:57 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta<br> There was something distinctly odd and diminishing about the discourse that surrounded Slumdog Millionaire's extraordinary success at Oscars.
Wed, Feb 25, 2009Universal Grabbing CommissionSubscriber Only
February 23, 2009 22:49 IST
Academics gearing up for appraisal,be scared. Be very scared
Mon, Feb 23, 2009Dead ends in PakistanSubscriber Only
February 21, 2009 16:27 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Swaraj Aur Samvidhan<br> Pakistan's agreement with the Taliban in the Swat region may turn out to be a catastrophically momentous event in South Asia.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Saying It Like ManiSubscriber Only
February 15, 2009 13:15 IST
A witty and argumentative take on the numerous issues of our times
Sun, Feb 15, 2009Offense Mongering AgainSubscriber Only
February 13, 2009 00:31 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta<br> Our freedoms are under threat again. The editor of the Statesman was arrested for reproducing an article by Jonathan Hari,"Why Should I Respect These Oppressive Religions?"
Fri, Feb 13, 2009Closing in on campusSubscriber Only
February 11, 2009 00:08 IST
Our universities are not any better,robbing another generation of opportunity
Wed, Feb 11, 2009Here We Go Ram AgainSubscriber Only
February 09, 2009 15:45 IST
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA | SWARAJ AUR SAMVIDHAN<br> It is election season. And so Ayodhya has to return as a subject of discussion. The crisis continues to signify a breakdown of our legal and constitutional arrangements.
Mon, Feb 09, 2009The Unravelling of InstitutionsSubscriber Only
February 03, 2009 15:28 IST
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA | SWARAJ AUR SAMVIDHAN<br> Two institutions,two different crises,but the story is eerily familiar.
Tue, Feb 03, 2009When we are anxiousSubscriber Only
February 03, 2009 01:15 IST
The defence of freedom in todays culture wars needs to be nuanced and engaging
Tue, Feb 03, 2009For the judges sakesSubscriber Only
January 27, 2009 01:55 IST
Their case against disclosure of assets is problematic on many counts
Tue, Jan 27, 2009The truth in the mirrorSubscriber Only
January 15, 2009 23:11 IST
Rajus fall reveals the dangers of our willingness to suspend disbelief about success
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
Dividing to ruleSubscriber Only
March 07, 2006 00:00 IST
There are moments in history when a sense of opportunity begins to give way to an uneasy sense of foreboding. It is not in the too distant p...
Tue, Mar 07, 2006Till the state recognises usSubscriber Only
February 16, 2006 00:00 IST
The Supreme Court’s directive to make the registration of all marriages compulsory will be nothing short of an extraordinary revolution...
Thu, Feb 16, 2006Central culpabilitySubscriber Only
January 26, 2006 00:08 IST
The Supreme Court’s landmark judgment in Rameshwar Prasad will bring some clarity to the norms governors should abide by before recomme...
Thu, Jan 26, 2006On Muslims, UPA has bad answersSubscriber Only
January 10, 2006 00:00 IST
The UPA government’s approach to the well-being of Muslims is threatening to inject an insidious poison into Indian politics, whose ram...
Tue, Jan 10, 2006How to make India a truly secular nationSubscriber Only
January 01, 2006 00:00 IST
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Sun, Jan 01, 2006The camera’s liesSubscriber Only
December 31, 2005 00:18 IST
There is a danger that public morality in Indian will sink into a coarse and vulgar voyeurism. The most disquieting aspect about l’affa...
Sat, Dec 31, 2005What are MPs for?Subscriber Only
December 27, 2005 00:00 IST
The recent expose and hasty expulsion of eleven MPs has generated much consternation about the crisis afflicting Parliament. But much of thi...
Tue, Dec 27, 2005The holy quotaSubscriber Only
December 12, 2005 00:00 IST
The decision to introduce a constitutional amendment to enable states to re-impose reservations in unaided private colleges is deeply disapp...
Mon, Dec 12, 2005
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