Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Indian Express Group
Wednesday 11 February '09
Our universities are not any better, robbing another generation of opportunityMonday 9 February '09
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA | SWARAJ AUR SAMVIDHAN It is election season. And so Ayodhya has to return as a subject of discussion. The crisis continues to signify a breakdown of our legal and constitutional arrangements.Tuesday
3 February '09PRATAP BHANU MEHTA | SWARAJ AUR SAMVIDHAN Two institutions, two different crises, but the story is eerily familiar.Tuesday
3 February '09The defence of freedom in today’s culture wars needs to be nuanced and engagingTuesday
27 January '09Their case against disclosure of assets is problematic on many countsThursday
15 January '09Raju’s fall reveals the dangers of our willingness to suspend disbelief about successThursday
1 January '09The only thing to be sure about is that 2009 will matterWednesday
24 December '08Must interpretation of every remark be prefaced with the identity of the speaker?Thursday
18 December '08Even after Mumbai, in strategic terms we may have to be on our ownTuesday
9 December '08If there is any lesson in this election for all political parties it is this: there is now no predetermined template that can unlock the mysteries of the Indian electorate; in that sense our politics has become truly contingent. This is the ultimate triumph of democracyTuesday
2 December '08Bad ideas are driving out reasoned ones, and politicians are forced to respond to noise rather than substance. Our exasperation is justified. But a fog of exasperation will not add to the analytical clarity that is needed at this momentFriday
28 November '08Some politicians have the unique fortune of being at the centre of history’s major cross-currents.Thursday
27 November '08English vs Hindi. Aravind Adiga vs Kunwar Narain. Our strange loss of bilingualismTuesday
18 November '08Fringe groups and secessionist movements question the legitimacy of the state, but despite imperfections India survived as a legitimate state. But now every single mainstream political party openly questions the legitimacy of the stateThursday
13 November '08It is not an accident that a politics that appeals to these youth is not one of high ideals, but one that confirms their status as victims. This is what Raj Thackeray, SIMI, Bajrang Dal, all trade onWednesday
5 November '08The Washington crisis meet could be India’s real foreign policy momentMonday
27 October '08Rethinking the global financial architecture is a political process. Are world leaders up to it?Monday
20 October '08A political or economic crisis often unhinges many entrenched assumptions. The current economic crisis, for instance...Sunday
19 October '08Chris Patten surveys the challenges of the millennium, but is profoundly ambivalent about many issuesFriday
10 October '08There is a sense in which the continued visibility of religion in the public sphere is masking two deep crises.Tuesday
23 September '08The increasing attacks on Christians in Karnataka, Orissa, Kerala and elsewhere are a moral scandal in more ways than...Monday
15 September '08Terrorists have once again taken a warped agenda and incarnated it into senseless violence. None of the platitudes...Thursday
11 September '08In the clamour to hold judges accountable, let’s not erode judiciary’s independenceSunday
7 September '08Kunwar Narain’s verse conveys what prose may notFriday
5 September '08Kosi shows India’s inability to manage its borderlands, domestically and internationally
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