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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
September 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
When the obituary of higher education in India is finally written, ββthrottled by government regulationββ 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