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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 | Nupur Sharma hate speech row: Beware of half victoriesSubscriber Only
June 06, 2022 16:48 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: A short-term blow on behalf of civility could be weaponised to endanger free speech and communal harmony in the long run
Wed, Jun 08, 2022
Why today’s debates over Aurangzeb, Shivaji, Rana Pratap or Prithviraj Chauhan are not about good or bad history, but tussles over memorySubscriber Only
June 02, 2022 19:14 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It's not about rewriting Marxist or Nehruvian history but putting facts at the service of creating kinship and finding enemies.
Fri, Jun 03, 2022
The conviction of Yasin MalikSubscriber Only
May 26, 2022 18:06 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: As is often the case in Kashmir, one act of closure may open up new and even more ominous questions.
Fri, May 27, 2022
What the two-front war in Ukraine means for the worldSubscriber Only
May 20, 2022 03:30 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In the long run, something creative may emerge from this crisis as economies restructure. Under present conditions, the second-order effects of the war have magnified a great deal
Fri, May 20, 2022
Like Nero, we fiddle as the world burnsSubscriber Only
May 04, 2022 03:00 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Climate deniers are not the real challenge. Those who do not deny climate change are imprisoned by a sense of unreality.
Wed, May 04, 2022
With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyssSubscriber Only
April 21, 2022 03:59 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The new Hinduism is about widespread acceptance of vile prejudice, alignment of state with majoritarian power, contempt for rights, glorification of violence
Tue, Apr 26, 2022
Putin may lose, but Putinism will surviveSubscriber Only
April 14, 2022 04:01 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Putin may lose, but Putinism is ascendant as an ideology — now aligning itself with white supremacism, French chauvinism, Israeli right wing assertion, Ottoman dreams, Chinese aggression or Hindutva aggression.
Fri, Apr 15, 2022
Ukraine invasion has revealed a new world disorderSubscriber Only
March 23, 2022 03:30 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The self-serving stances of all the great powers make it more likely that the world will be marked by more miscalculations, conflict and hubris
Thu, Mar 24, 2022
What the March 2022 assembly election results revealSubscriber Only
March 10, 2022 14:51 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The BJP has transformed the nature of politics in ways to which the Opposition has no answer.
Thu, Mar 17, 2022
The world must do more to put pressure on RussiaSubscriber Only
February 26, 2022 03:59 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The brutal truth is that despite outrage in the West, the appetite for doing what it takes to put pressure on Putin is not yet in evidence.
Sat, Feb 26, 2022
Hijab debate is a pretext for institutionalising state crueltySubscriber Only
February 23, 2022 03:30 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Progressives in India have fallen into the trap of being seen to oppose or defend the hijab, where the truth is that it is presumptuous to do either
Wed, Feb 23, 2022
Lata Mangeshkar was India’s inner voiceSubscriber Only
February 07, 2022 03:20 IST
She represented us collectively. She also represented each one of us in our singularity
Tue, Feb 08, 2022
Kumar Gandharva exemplifies the unity of form, meaning and beingSubscriber Only
January 13, 2022 03:03 IST
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: By the time he took his last breath, he had not only become one of the greatest musicians of all time, he had arguably become the highest point of Indian culture
Fri, Jan 14, 2022
A separate entrance test for DU won’t solve anythingSubscriber Only
January 08, 2022 03:03 IST
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The pressure on Delhi University will be eased if our regional universities are vastly improved
Sat, Jan 08, 2022
Can 2022 be a year of cooperation?Subscriber Only
January 01, 2022 04:00 IST
Let us hope that the world can steer clear of the conflicts that the major crises of 2021 seem to have made inevitable
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
Is there really no alternative to BJP and Modi?Subscriber Only
December 29, 2021 03:50 IST
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Amnesia about recent history, pessimism lie behind the persistent refrain, ‘There is no alternative’.
Thu, Dec 30, 2021
The limits of the Hindu vs Hindutvavadi debateSubscriber Only
December 16, 2021 03:01 IST
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Don’t expect the metaphysical project of defining a true Hindu to bell the political cat of building a decent society
Thu, Dec 23, 2021
Repealing AFSPA will not weaken, only strengthen ConstitutionSubscriber Only
December 09, 2021 04:35 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It is necessary for restoring constitutional sanity, stopping the permanent othering of Nagaland.
Fri, Dec 10, 2021
Is crypto mania more a symptom than a cause?Subscriber Only
November 27, 2021 03:00 IST
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: We must ask what makes it alluring in the first place, instead of rooting for its ban.
Sun, Nov 28, 2021
What the withdrawal of controversial farm laws meansSubscriber Only
November 20, 2021 04:30 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It dents government’s image of total control, but whether it leads to a constructive dialogue or a sharpening of contradictions remains to be seen
Sun, Nov 21, 2021
We need greater global cooperationSubscriber Only
November 08, 2021 03:53 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: In new era of great power rivalry, countries are choosing to preserve national supremacy over global problem-solving. This will have consequences.
Tue, Nov 09, 2021
What is the harassment of Aryan Khan really about?Subscriber Only
October 26, 2021 03:51 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It's not about establishing that everyone is equal before the law. There are larger ideological connections here.
Wed, Oct 27, 2021
Violence and communalism: South Asia’s disturbing commonalitySubscriber Only
October 20, 2021 03:10 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Fundamentalists, even as they create walls between communities, recognise that South Asia has a connected destiny: They bank on it to achieve their ends
Thu, Oct 21, 2021
What the attacks against minorities in Kashmir revealSubscriber Only
October 09, 2021 03:55 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s security environment is precarious, its political future fragile, and its human sympathies dead. It will require a great act of statesmanship to overcome these challenges.
Sun, Oct 10, 2021
The Quad is an important political signal. But it will be testedSubscriber Only
September 28, 2021 03:44 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It is consolidating at a moment when its grade on the three ‘Cs’ — Climate, Covid and Critical Technologies — is, from the point of view of the rest of the world, already a ‘C’.
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