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
June 29,2010 04:33:37 AM
The history of Kabir criticism shows how identity has colonised scholarship...
Tue, Jun 29, 2010June 18,2010 03:35:59 AM
The way the government uses empowered groups of ministers is unsettling...
Fri, Jun 18, 2010June 10,2010 02:01:03 AM
Bhopal gas case reframes grave questions for the judiciary...
Thu, Jun 10, 2010June 03,2010 01:26:04 AM
The UPAs report card reveals its listlessness and shrunken ambitions...
Thu, Jun 03, 2010May 27,2010 23:14:26 PM
If younger politicians have less power,it is because they dont take risks
Thu, May 27, 2010May 12,2010 23:26:09 PM
The decision to,in principle,enumerate caste in the Census is a monumental travesty.
Wed, May 12, 2010May 08,2010 22:39:31 PM
We still have some way to go to fix higher education....
Sat, May 08, 2010April 29,2010 00:03:44 AM
Below-poverty-line lists are of doubtful value for policy purposes....
Thu, Apr 29, 2010April 21,2010 01:15:06 AM
The states inability to mobilise expertise and skill sets is costing India....
Wed, Apr 21, 2010April 14,2010 02:34:41 AM
There is a deep puzzle about our current bout of inflation. Why is there not more palpable political rage at what is,by historical standards,unconscionably high inflation?
Wed, Apr 14, 2010April 06,2010 01:43:27 AM
It is not yet clear what the mandate and priorities of the newly constituted NAC will be. Historically,the NAC has been associated largely with inputs into social sector...
Tue, Apr 06, 2010March 30,2010 23:50:57 PM
The BJP has,for the moment,settled into a path of very modest institutional consolidation. But its political trajectory and prospects remain deeply uncertain.
Tue, Mar 30, 2010March 15,2010 02:17:14 AM
There is a constitutional revolution underway. It has long been in the making. But its full logic is unfolding now. This new type of regime it will beget defies classification.
Mon, Mar 15, 2010March 09,2010 01:32:29 AM
The Womens Reservation Bill is a powerful normative signal about the desirability of the empowerment of women.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010March 04,2010 03:48:15 AM
If we legitimise the taking of offence there will be more provocations,not less
Thu, Mar 04, 2010February 23,2010 03:31:42 AM
The proposed law to regulate higher education could be a disaster....
Tue, Feb 23, 2010February 16,2010 02:10:19 AM
The long shadow of terror stalks India-Pakistan talks yet again. And a familiar pattern may be repeated. Complicity of groups in Pakistan will be exposed...
Tue, Feb 16, 2010February 05,2010 01:04:38 AM
Dont see Senas outrages in isolation: together,they frame a political crisis
Fri, Feb 05, 2010January 26,2010 23:56:57 PM
As these landmark cases remind us,for all our cynicism,our constitutional values have often rescued us,elevated us and made us proud....
Tue, Jan 26, 2010January 26,2010 00:38:42 AM
Lets grasp the sensibility that fired the Constituent Assembly
Tue, Jan 26, 2010January 18,2010 02:36:27 AM
Jyoti Basu,the unquestioned patriarch of Bengal politics has passed away just at the moment where the edifice he so assiduously built is showing signs of crumbling.
Mon, Jan 18, 2010January 11,2010 01:47:08 AM
The world is creeping back into a state of nervous anxiety over terrorism. The so-called underwear bomber certainly exposed...
Mon, Jan 11, 2010January 01,2010 02:01:54 AM
As economics transforms our politics,will we see a smarter idea of India?
Fri, Jan 01, 2010December 29,2009 03:40:08 AM
The year draws to a close in a morally unsettling way. The horror of the Ruchika case draws not simply from the original crime and...
Tue, Dec 29, 2009December 22,2009 03:04:34 AM
The institutional improvisations of Indian democracy confound predictions and principles. The decision to make voting compulsory in local...
Tue, Dec 22, 2009


