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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: The Opposition is being vanquished by unfair means. And there is no reactionSubscriber Only
March 27, 2023 19:31 IST
Amid fear and impunity, the threshold of over-reach by the political establishment seems to be shifting higher and higher
Sat, Apr 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Nobody loves local governmentSubscriber Only
March 10, 2023 16:35 IST
Thirty years after the 73rd and 74th amendments, decentralisation of power and resources is more showy than real
Sat, Mar 11, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Ukraine tragedy has become a sideshow for rest of the world, which may be sleepwalking into a disastrous futureSubscriber Only
February 17, 2023 18:00 IST
The war has tied the US hands even more in acting as a policeman of liberal values. It has given its friends and allies like India and Israel even more cover to renege on their democratic promise, without attracting any international attention
Sat, Feb 18, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Conduct of the Supreme Court over the appointment of Justice Victoria Gowri is yet another spectacular own goalSubscriber Only
February 10, 2023 17:11 IST
A hearing that is meaningless, has no serious judicial basis, and whose outcome is foregone? Is this tangled web a product of carelessness or complicity?
Sat, Feb 11, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: This Republic Day, fighting the darkSubscriber Only
January 26, 2023 06:50 IST
These are testing times. This year will be challenging for constitutional processes
Thu, Jan 26, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes | UGC guidelines on foreign universities: The University Gimmicks CommissionSubscriber Only
January 07, 2023 14:00 IST
New guidelines for foreign campuses in India don’t herald a revolution. They’re an admission of failure
Mon, Jan 09, 2023
Two very different books try to arrive at an understanding of the phenomenon that was Swami VivekanandaSubscriber Only
January 07, 2023 12:00 IST
Swami Vivekananda’s Vedantic Cosmopolitanism by Swami Medhananda is a marvel of philosophical brilliance and erudition while Ruth Hariss’s beautifully written Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda looks at his transformation into a new-age guru
Sun, Jan 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes | Demonetisation verdict: Six years later, farce after tragedySubscriber Only
January 02, 2023 16:04 IST
In her dissent, Justice Nagarathna asks the right question: What was the Board of the RBI doing in all this?
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes | All hail the Vishwaguru: It is marketing and mantra and modernity and manlinessSubscriber Only
December 31, 2022 07:12 IST
If you were ever confused by the question, “What are India’s aspirations?” help is at hand. Think of India as a Vishwaguru. All your doubts will melt away.
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes | Bharat Jodo Yatra: A journey in search of a destinationSubscriber Only
December 22, 2022 16:24 IST
Bharat Jodo is an important gesture on politics of hate. But its own equivocation on what it is about suggests that it is not yet a politics of hope
Sat, Dec 24, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: On China, government needs to be more forthcomingSubscriber Only
December 15, 2022 18:04 IST
While there is a great effort to focus attention on the China challenge, there is also an attempt to disguise the gravity
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: China’s protests diminish Xi Jinping’s authoritySubscriber Only
November 29, 2022 18:00 IST
Protests in China are unlikely to lead to regime change, but it has dented the authority of the President.
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why the judiciary may not be the best selector of election commissionersSubscriber Only
November 23, 2022 18:00 IST
SC should address specific concerns about EC, not use ad hoc observations to undermine legitimacy of institution
Sat, Nov 26, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes | Bloom vs gloom: When it comes to the economy, the evidence warrants agnosticismSubscriber Only
November 16, 2022 06:10 IST
There has always been a propensity to overestimate domestic demand. This has been compounded by the unequal distribution of income
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Lula’s victory: Brazil back from the brink?Subscriber Only
November 01, 2022 18:34 IST
Brazil has got a reprieve. But this time around, Lula's challenges will be of a far greater magnitude
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Not Hindi or English, the real language question is status of vernacularSubscriber Only
October 21, 2022 20:02 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It is treated as language of past not future, of popular culture but not high knowledge
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
US sanctions targeting China’s semiconductor industry are a gamble aimed at maintaining American hegemonySubscriber Only
October 20, 2022 04:24 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If the Chinese are going nationalist, surely the world will not be safer by a doubling down on American nationalism. The rest of the world’s interest will lie not in opportunistically exploiting this rivalry but in banding together to change the self-defeating terms in which it is being conducted
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why it’s wrong to say that Hinduism is a product of colonialismSubscriber Only
October 11, 2022 19:44 IST
Discussion of Hinduism requires greater theological imagination, philosophical and historical subtlety
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Across world, foundational ideas of major political systems are under challengeSubscriber Only
October 06, 2022 04:17 IST
The foundational frameworks iconically represented by Madison, Mao, Maududi and Mandela are floundering.
Mon, Oct 10, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: From Leicester to New Jersey, the diaspora is reflecting the divisions of Indian politicsSubscriber Only
September 21, 2022 17:53 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: A Vishwaguru wearing a robe of Hindutva cannot but export all the fault lines that come with it
Sat, Sep 24, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Madhava Rao, a statesman from a princely state whose administrative qualities PM Modi extolledSubscriber Only
September 16, 2022 19:50 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Madhava Rao's treatise on governance offers a window into an alternative modernity and alternative genealogy of secularism – it has relevance even today
Wed, Feb 08, 2023
‘Is this how justice ends?’: Bilkis Bano’s question should haunt the Indian republicSubscriber Only
August 18, 2022 16:35 IST
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: We live in an age where crime and justice, innocence and guilt, have no autonomous meaning of their own, other than as part of a communal project
Fri, Aug 19, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Nine Lives of Nitish KumarSubscriber Only
August 10, 2022 19:27 IST
Drama in Bihar is fascinating. But this is not a moment for euphoria for the Opposition, or a pathway to national regeneration
Thu, Aug 11, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: By upholding PMLA, SC puts its stamp on Kafka’s lawSubscriber Only
July 28, 2022 17:56 IST
The money laundering Act is opaque and draconian, gives state arbitrary powers over citizens. Now, it has the SC's approval
Fri, Jul 29, 2022
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Littleness of Opposition makes the BJP look bigSubscriber Only
July 22, 2022 18:14 IST
In a context where the BJP is too easily running away with a narrative of inclusion, mobility and newness, all that the Opposition could do was remind people how much it is stuck in the past
Sat, Jul 23, 2022Journalism of Courage
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