Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Is it gullibility or complicity of our pro-establishment intellectuals to pass off the violent core of political culture represented by Narendra Modi as an aberration?

A foreign and strategic policy for India in the twenty first century

Education and Equality are central to India's future because they not only define the content of our power; they are also the instruments to achieve it.

Eminent Indians speak up in support of Sonal Shah: 'We are dismayed by attempts to draw Sonal Shah's name into needless controversy by questioning her ideological affiliations and to make utterly false accusations against her'

The meeting of China, Russia and India offers temptations of a multipolar order. Is a profound shift may underway in international politics? The larger context suggests more might be at stake.

Does globalization require an ethic of religious exchange? Should there be a set of norms, unstated conventions, restraints that govern religious exchange?

A perfidious piece of legislation, the Quota Bill, is about to arrive. The dark clouds it brings in its wake will dissipate only when this crisis becomes an occasion for genuine soul searching, for focusing attention on the meaning of citizenship and

In addition to the state investing heavily in increasing access to higher education, globalization also requires the state to respect the autonomy of institutions so that institutions have the flexibility to do what it takes to retain talent in a glo

'...by the fact that it prompted you to write ... But I do not believe that virtue is distributed by caste or class, which your letter implicitly suggests ... Perhaps I trust society too much, but perhaps you trust the state too much, and good histo

'Your government is sending a message about our institutions: in the final analysis, they are playthings for politicians to mess around with ... I cannot help but concluding that what your government is proposing poses grave dangers for India as a n

Lesson for the GoI-to-be: growth is not a panacea, but if it falters, all else does too, even a re-election

The beauty of a sociologically porous entity, with free individuals, has been spoilt

What does it take to retain a magazine’s identity, sustain reader interest? A lot more than platitudes. An 18-point call to action

UPA-II goes elbows and shoulders at dissenting academicians

A deep thirst for change in India must be met by the monolithic state

She’s impetuous, honest, a gadfly. But for all her courage, Mamata’s change is painted in borrowed Red.

Democracy just got a bit more democratised. Thank the economy.

A virtuoso study of poverty employs anthropological rigour, is shot with psychological insight, plumps for contentious randomised trials and believes in small interventions

Fully loaded magazine? Not if it’s only short-range fire.

A clear, concise documentation of the argument that the Indian state, through law, actively shapes and transforms religion