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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 on Modi’s US visit: Making of a high pointPremium Story
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Most striking thing about the current India-US moment is the sheer asymmetry of what the US is offering. It may not last
Wed, Jun 21, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Manipur crisis reveals the limits of BJP’s politics in the Northeast
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: All parties, singly, are considered partisan. What is needed is an all-party mediation to lift the state out of a fatal zero-sum identity politics
Fri, Jun 09, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Brazen and ominous, Centre’s Delhi ordinance defies the Supreme Court, bodes ill for federal democracy
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By negating the court’s ruling to take over services, the government has intentionally created a full-blown constitutional crisis. The Supreme Court will be damned if it does (react) and damned if it does not.
Mon, May 22, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Six lessons from Karnataka
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: BJP is finding it hard to win bipolar contests. In that lies a window of opportunity for the Opposition
Wed, May 17, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The mirage of social justiceSign In to read
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Opposition projecting political unity on the basis of social division is unlikely to be a winning formula in elections
Sat, Apr 22, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Death of the dissidentPremium Story
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: We live in an age when strongmen are elevated to iconic status, but it is harder for dissidents to become focal point for a discussion of freedom
Sun, Apr 16, 2023
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The Opposition is being vanquished by unfair means. And there is no reactionPremium Story
March 27,2023 19:31:57 PM
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 governmentPremium Story
March 10,2023 16:35:49 PM
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 futurePremium Story
February 17,2023 18:00:52 PM
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 goalPremium Story
February 10,2023 17:11:02 PM
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 darkPremium Story
January 26,2023 06:50:06 AM
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 CommissionPremium Story
January 07,2023 14:00:41 PM
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 VivekanandaPremium Story
January 07,2023 12:00:13 PM
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 tragedyPremium Story
January 02,2023 16:04:29 PM
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 manlinessPremium Story
December 31,2022 07:12:20 AM
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 destinationPremium Story
December 22,2022 16:24:31 PM
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 forthcomingPremium Story
December 15,2022 18:04:17 PM
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 authorityPremium Story
November 29,2022 18:00:33 PM
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 commissionersPremium Story
November 23,2022 18:00:08 PM
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 agnosticismPremium Story
November 16,2022 06:10:29 AM
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?Premium Story
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Wed, Feb 08, 2023
Not Hindi or English, the real language question is status of vernacularPremium Story
October 21,2022 20:02:56 PM
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 hegemonyPremium Story
October 20,2022 04:24:32 AM
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 colonialismPremium Story
October 11,2022 19:44:44 PM
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 challengePremium Story
October 06,2022 04:17:41 AM
The foundational frameworks iconically represented by Madison, Mao, Maududi and Mandela are floundering.
Mon, Oct 10, 2022