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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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Moral vertigo?Subscriber Only
November 04, 2005 00:00 IST
Acts of terrorism are designed to produce moral and emotional vertigo. The very casualness with which terrorists treat the lives of their vi...
Fri, Nov 04, 2005Governors as lynch-pinsSubscriber Only
October 10, 2005 00:00 IST
The Supreme Court judgment in Rameshwar Prasad vs Union of India, declaring the dissolution of the Bihar assembly to be unconstitutional, is...
Mon, Oct 10, 2005Our Forked TonguesSubscriber Only
September 16, 2005 00:00 IST
In international relations hypocrisy is often a very good measure of how great a power a nation has become. Small powerless nations, confine...
Fri, Sep 16, 2005Reserve ForceSubscriber Only
August 28, 2005 00:00 IST
I AM commonly known as quota. Though I have a funny little name, I am central to this nation’s hopes and disappointments. Before indepe...
Sun, Aug 28, 2005Sense and ConsensusSubscriber Only
August 24, 2005 00:00 IST
Anyone looking at political debate on economic issues recently might be forgiven for thinking that politics in India is all sweetness and li...
Wed, Aug 24, 20055-7-11 JusticeSubscriber Only
August 18, 2005 00:00 IST
A seven-judge Constitution Bench’s ruling in P.A. Inamdar and Others v State of Maharashtra and Others will inspire many thoughts. Seve...
Thu, Aug 18, 2005An embrace too ardentSubscriber Only
July 20, 2005 00:00 IST
Winston Churchill once called on the British-American relationship to “roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible and benignant.”...
Wed, Jul 20, 2005How to build Quality InstitutionsSubscriber Only
July 16, 2005 00:00 IST
Any sensible regulatory regime must acknowledge that the pressure to create quality has to come from many sources. As our experience shows, ...
Sat, Jul 16, 2005Critiquing the Regulatory RegimeSubscriber Only
July 15, 2005 00:27 IST
A characteristic weakness of regulatory regimes in India is that they concentrate on motives and intentions rather than on likely outcomes. ...
Fri, Jul 15, 2005Regulating Higher EducationSubscriber Only
July 14, 2005 00:00 IST
The debate over the regulation of higher education is needlessly convoluted. Images of universities running from garages, colleges charging ...
Thu, Jul 14, 2005Where’s the party?Subscriber Only
June 29, 2005 00:00 IST
Although the BJP is the party experiencing turmoil, the Congress should seriously begin to worry about its own future. On the surface, thing...
Wed, Jun 29, 2005The Jinnah touchstoneSubscriber Only
June 08, 2005 00:00 IST
Advani’s statements over Jinnah have not just created a political storm within the BJP. They have also exposed the ambivalences and con...
Wed, Jun 08, 2005The general’s brainSubscriber Only
May 16, 2005 00:00 IST
Now that the April Foreign Policy euphoria is over, the party poopers are out with full force. The question is again being asked: can we tru...
Mon, May 16, 2005Quite right, Sir HumphreySubscriber Only
April 25, 2005 00:00 IST
A commission for Administrative Reforms sounds like a good idea. But such reforms are often an exercise akin to a dog trying to catch its ow...
Mon, Apr 25, 2005Justice by the law, not by a vigilanteSubscriber Only
March 25, 2005 00:52 IST
Aspects of Narendra Modi’s politics are reprehensible. His conduct during the Gujarat riots was condemnable. The lack of remorse he has...
Fri, Mar 25, 2005A new non-alignment?Subscriber Only
March 23, 2005 00:00 IST
It is a pity that the term “non-alignment” has not been able to transcend its Cold War baggage. The term, in its core meaning, ref...
Wed, Mar 23, 2005Manmohan’s brave new worldSubscriber Only
March 10, 2005 00:07 IST
There has been a quiet revolution underway in India’s approach to the world. The central elements of this revolution were simply but po...
Thu, Mar 10, 2005Truth, confessions and videotapeSubscriber Only
February 17, 2005 00:00 IST
Anara Gupta, beauty queen. S.A.R. Geelani, academic. Shankaracharya, spiritual leader. Vicky Thakur, suspected kidnapper. Jammu, Delhi, Chen...
Thu, Feb 17, 2005Baby Elephant WalkSubscriber Only
February 11, 2005 00:00 IST
The crisis in Nepal has brought home India’s limitations as a major power. Not only did the King blatantly ignore India’s advice a...
Fri, Feb 11, 2005Sex and SensibilitySubscriber Only
December 29, 2004 00:00 IST
Although at one level it was a case of adolescent indiscretion, the afterlife of the MMS clip case captures many anxieties about the social ...
Wed, Dec 29, 2004Left/Right, right?Subscriber Only
December 09, 2004 00:00 IST
There is a story about a professor who taught a class on “Left and Right in Economic Thought.” Like many good professors, he delin...
Thu, Dec 09, 2004BA Pass, MA Pass, give talent a passSubscriber Only
November 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Faced with a genuine problem of quality control, a national accreditation council was set up. This has turned out to be a non-starter for ma...
Sat, Nov 27, 2004Taking the XIIth standard country-leaving examSubscriber Only
November 26, 2004 00:00 IST
The growth of higher education in India is seriously hampered by the dead weight of hypocritical socialist pieties on the one hand and impro...
Fri, Nov 26, 2004The future of an illusionSubscriber Only
November 24, 2004 00:00 IST
The current disarray within the BJP raises a profound question. Has its historical moment passed? During the ’90s the BJP managed to ex...
Wed, Nov 24, 2004Turning Bangla migrants into partners in growthSubscriber Only
November 15, 2004 00:00 IST
The relationship between Bangla-desh and India has become a sorry tale of mutual incomprehension, fragile egos and self defeating behaviour....
Mon, Nov 15, 2004
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