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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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Mon, Feb 09, 2009The Unravelling of InstitutionsSubscriber Only
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Tue, Feb 03, 2009When we are anxiousSubscriber Only
February 03,2009 01:15:22 AM
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 01:55:40 AM
Their case against disclosure of assets is problematic on many counts
Tue, Jan 27, 2009The truth in the mirrorSubscriber Only
January 15,2009 23:11:48 PM
Rajus fall reveals the dangers of our willingness to suspend disbelief about success
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
Dividing to ruleSubscriber Only
March 07,2006 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:08:55 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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Sun, Jan 01, 2006The camera’s liesSubscriber Only
December 31,2005 00:18:40 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
The decision to introduce a constitutional amendment to enable states to re-impose reservations in unaided private colleges is deeply disapp...
Mon, Dec 12, 2005Moral vertigo?Subscriber Only
November 04,2005 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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
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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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:27:06 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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, 2005Journalism of Courage
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