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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
November 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
The relationship between Bangla-desh and India has become a sorry tale of mutual incomprehension, fragile egos and self defeating behaviour....
Mon, Nov 15, 2004November 06,2004 00:00:00 AM
George Mitchell once said that “although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.” The me...
Sat, Nov 06, 2004October 28,2004 00:00:00 AM
The Indian judiciary is an institution trapped in a myth about its own power. The Supreme Court has, on a rather slender constitutional basi...
Thu, Oct 28, 2004October 13,2004 00:00:00 AM
Jacques Derrida, who died on October 8 at the age of 74, was a remarkable figure in 20th century letters. Deconstruction, an intellectual mo...
Wed, Oct 13, 2004October 08,2004 00:00:00 AM
As relations between India and Pakistan improve, the diplomatic and political challenges for India will get tougher rather than easier. In m...
Fri, Oct 08, 2004September 02,2004 00:00:00 AM
It is almost impossible to read any public references to Indian history these days without feeling a profound sense of claustrophobia. Polem...
Thu, Sep 02, 2004August 04,2004 00:00:00 AM
Should there be a law debarring charge-sheeted politicians from holding public office? This debate is marked by two forms of disingenuousnes...
Wed, Aug 04, 2004July 18,2004 00:00:00 AM
The dominant academic historiography of modern India has, in recent times, been marked by what can best be described as a form of hyper self...
Sun, Jul 18, 2004July 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
The Andhra Pradesh government’s announcement of a five percent job reservation for Muslims is treading down a dangerous legal and polit...
Thu, Jul 15, 2004December 21,2003 00:00:00 AM
The great Hindi writer, Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, in a brilliant essay Jabki Dimag Khali Hai (When the Mind is Empty) published in 1939, outlin...
Sun, Dec 21, 2003July 02,2003 00:00:00 AM
Any increase in activity over finding a settlement to the Ayodhya imbroglio, produces more anxiety than clarity. The circumstances that have...
Wed, Jul 02, 2003May 09,2003 00:00:00 AM
When the history of India’s reforms during the nineties is written, scholars will blame the slow pace of reform on many factors: The ve...
Fri, May 09, 2003March 07,2003 00:00:00 AM
As you know, many citizens have of late been distressed by your attempts to open up more spaces for mixing religion and politics. Your attem...
Fri, Mar 07, 2003December 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Prime Minister’s recent speech to BJP parliamentarians, the one were he spoke of Muslims not having condemned the Godhra incident e...
Tue, Dec 24, 2002November 12,2002 00:00:00 AM
The University Grants Commission’s proposal to introduce a contract system for teachers seeks to address a problem that the teaching co...
Tue, Nov 12, 2002November 01,2002 00:00:00 AM
Honourable Justices, An alarming spectre is haunting the country: the spectre of religious intolerance. While this may have complex roots, i...
Fri, Nov 01, 2002September 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
When the obituary of higher education in India is finally written, ‘‘throttled by government regulation’’ will in all li...
Tue, Sep 24, 2002August 02,2002 00:00:00 AM
The two new controversies that were added to the quagmire in Kashmir this week should remind us of the fact that the diplomatic and politica...
Fri, Aug 02, 2002July 04,2002 00:00:00 AM
The last few months have witnessed the passing away of another illusion. Caste politics was seen by many as one of the defining narratives o...
Thu, Jul 04, 2002May 22,2002 00:00:00 AM
There is no doubt whatsoever that the outrageous acts of terror being conducted inside Jammu and Kashmir deserve the strongest possible resp...
Wed, May 22, 2002April 26,2002 00:00:00 AM
Of the many vexed questions raised by the Gujarat crisis, the complicity of democracy in the whole process is the most challenging.Many of t...
Fri, Apr 26, 2002September 12,1998 00:00:00 AM
The BJP is the architect of a political strategy that is perhaps unique in the annals of democratic politics. It makes apparent to onlook...
Sat, Sep 12, 1998October 07,1997 00:00:00 AM
There have recently been a particular set of polemics expressing serious doubts about liberal democracy's capacity to provide an adequate f...
Tue, Oct 07, 1997
