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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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November 06, 2004 00:00 IST
George Mitchell once said that “although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.” The me...
Sat, Nov 06, 2004Can judges judge themselves?Subscriber Only
October 28, 2004 00:00 IST
The Indian judiciary is an institution trapped in a myth about its own power. The Supreme Court has, on a rather slender constitutional basi...
Thu, Oct 28, 2004The Philosopher of SurplusSubscriber Only
October 13, 2004 00:00 IST
Jacques Derrida, who died on October 8 at the age of 74, was a remarkable figure in 20th century letters. Deconstruction, an intellectual mo...
Wed, Oct 13, 2004A hardworking peaceSubscriber Only
October 08, 2004 00:00 IST
As relations between India and Pakistan improve, the diplomatic and political challenges for India will get tougher rather than easier. In m...
Fri, Oct 08, 2004The inhuman cliches of historySubscriber Only
September 02, 2004 00:00 IST
It is almost impossible to read any public references to Indian history these days without feeling a profound sense of claustrophobia. Polem...
Thu, Sep 02, 2004<i>Mantriji</i> may be a rogue, but he’s popular tooSubscriber Only
August 04, 2004 00:00 IST
Should there be a law debarring charge-sheeted politicians from holding public office? This debate is marked by two forms of disingenuousnes...
Wed, Aug 04, 2004Stories of UsSubscriber Only
July 18, 2004 00:00 IST
The dominant academic historiography of modern India has, in recent times, been marked by what can best be described as a form of hyper self...
Sun, Jul 18, 2004Democracy doesn’t keep faith with reservationsSubscriber Only
July 15, 2004 00:00 IST
The Andhra Pradesh government’s announcement of a five percent job reservation for Muslims is treading down a dangerous legal and polit...
Thu, Jul 15, 2004The Heart is Full, the Mind EmptySubscriber Only
December 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The great Hindi writer, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, in a brilliant essay Jabki Dimag Khali Hai (When the Mind is Empty) published in 1939, outlin...
Sun, Dec 21, 2003No just solutionSubscriber Only
July 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Any increase in activity over finding a settlement to the Ayodhya imbroglio, produces more anxiety than clarity. The circumstances that have...
Wed, Jul 02, 2003Capitalists against capitalismSubscriber Only
May 09, 2003 00:00 IST
When the history of India’s reforms during the nineties is written, scholars will blame the slow pace of reform on many factors: The ve...
Fri, May 09, 2003An open letter to Digvijay SinghSubscriber Only
March 07, 2003 00:00 IST
As you know, many citizens have of late been distressed by your attempts to open up more spaces for mixing religion and politics. Your attem...
Fri, Mar 07, 2003Let’s set up a Condemnation Inc.Subscriber Only
December 24, 2002 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister’s recent speech to BJP parliamentarians, the one were he spoke of Muslims not having condemned the Godhra incident e...
Tue, Dec 24, 2002Teachers on contract: Read the small printSubscriber Only
November 12, 2002 00:00 IST
The University Grants Commission’s proposal to introduce a contract system for teachers seeks to address a problem that the teaching co...
Tue, Nov 12, 2002Your Lordships, a humble open letterSubscriber Only
November 01, 2002 00:00 IST
Honourable Justices, An alarming spectre is haunting the country: the spectre of religious intolerance. While this may have complex roots, i...
Fri, Nov 01, 2002We don’t need no education controlSubscriber Only
September 24, 2002 00:00 IST
When the obituary of higher education in India is finally written, ‘‘throttled by government regulation’’ will in all li...
Tue, Sep 24, 2002Dividing the Kashmir blame pieSubscriber Only
August 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The two new controversies that were added to the quagmire in Kashmir this week should remind us of the fact that the diplomatic and politica...
Fri, Aug 02, 2002Caste aside illusionSubscriber Only
July 04, 2002 00:00 IST
The last few months have witnessed the passing away of another illusion. Caste politics was seen by many as one of the defining narratives o...
Thu, Jul 04, 2002Be tough, be creativeSubscriber Only
May 22, 2002 00:00 IST
There is no doubt whatsoever that the outrageous acts of terror being conducted inside Jammu and Kashmir deserve the strongest possible resp...
Wed, May 22, 2002Confronting democracySubscriber Only
April 26, 2002 00:00 IST
Of the many vexed questions raised by the Gujarat crisis, the complicity of democracy in the whole process is the most challenging.Many of t...
Fri, Apr 26, 2002The saffron riptideSubscriber Only
September 12, 1998 00:00 IST
The BJP is the architect of a political strategy that is perhaps unique in the annals of democratic politics. It makes apparent to onlook...
Sat, Sep 12, 1998Don’t blame democracySubscriber Only
October 07, 1997 00:00 IST
There have recently been a particular set of polemics expressing serious doubts about liberal democracy's capacity to provide an adequate f...
Tue, Oct 07, 1997
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