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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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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
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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
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