Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Indian Express Group
Friday 30 October '09
Have we forgiven her in part because she was a Napoleonic figure of sorts?Saturday 24 October '09
Can a purely meritocratic society be anything but stressful?Thursday
8 October '09There is an abiding paradox in Indo-US relations that calls for deeper reflection. From India’s point of view, those whom we think of as liberals...Tuesday
29 September '09How the US goes forward on Afghanistan will determine its sense of its power....Wednesday
16 September '09Is the relentless exposure of hypocrisy a good thing for a democracy? Questions over the relationship between the...Monday
7 September '09Tweaking VC appointments will not work without making universities truly independent....Saturday
22 August '09Jaswant Singh opens up serious and interesting questions, but fails in resolving themThursday
20 August '09This is not about Jinnah. It is about the state of the BJP...Friday
14 August '09India, China’s debates about each other are tied to their complex processes of self-discovery....Sunday
9 August '09The West Bengal Governor, Gopal Gandhi, has powerfully stated a widely perceived truth.Friday
7 August '09The recent episode over the Judges (Declaration of Assets & Liabilities) Bill is a reminder of just how difficult genuine judicial reform is going to be.Friday
31 July '09The prime minister must use his political capital wisely on his big initiative....Tuesday
28 July '09In international relations, perhaps even more than in domestic politics, perceptions drive issues more than reality.Thursday
23 July '09Educating children into a culture of equality in the face of immense inequalityTuesday
21 July '09Our generation, mercifully, has little sense of what it means to philosophise as if the very existence of civilisation depended on it.Thursday
16 July '09The long road from New Delhi’s welfare schemes to local delivery....Monday
13 July '09As many skeptics had suspected, 123 Agreement was not going to be the end of India's quest for recognition in global order.Friday
3 July '09There come moments in the life of a nation when it has to confront its deepest prejudices and fears in the mirror of its constitutional morality.Monday
29 June '09There is considerable excitement at the prospect of reform initiated by the HRD Minister.Saturday
27 June '09The HRD ministry’s 100-day plan has provoked the academic community out of its stupor.Tuesday
16 June '09The diminution of the humanities and liberal arts in India is astonishingSaturday
13 June '09The form in which the BJP is coming to terms with its defeat explains why it deserved to lose. Many of the explanations have rightly focused on a number of factors.Monday
8 June '09Creating universities is the easy part. Reforming HRD ministry will take more doingTuesday
26 May '09It is deeply sad that a most gloriously inventive, radical and genuinely pious religious community like the Sikhs now seems to be frequently hostage to a regime of internal intolerance.Sunday
17 May '09Celebrate the defeat of opportunism, obfuscation and obscurantism
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