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P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

Congress might exult in the fact that all its INDIA bloc rivals have fallen away. But Congress is nowhere near even putting up a minimal resistance...

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

Congress might exult in the fact that all its INDIA bloc rivals have fallen away. But Congress is nowhere near even putting up a minimal resistance...

05.05.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

P B Mehta writes: BJP’s triumph is a testament to its political energy, but it carries a shadow for Indian democracy

Congress might exult in the fact that all its INDIA bloc rivals have fallen away. But Congress is nowhere near even putting up a minimal resistance...

05.05.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?

Admittedly, not all of the BJP’s strategies are entirely unprecedented. But the ruthlessness, scale, coordination and ferocity with which they are...

30.04.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?

Admittedly, not all of the BJP’s strategies are entirely unprecedented. But the ruthlessness, scale, coordination and ferocity with which they are...

29.04.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Why AAP's breakup matters and can an Opposition-free India be far behind?
29.04.2026 20

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A political setback for the government, a democratic opening for the opposition

18.04.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: A modest plea for constitutional morality

In a case like Sabarimala, it invites us to ask: How are liberty and equality to be reconciled with the autonomy of institutions? When does a practice...

12.04.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: A modest plea for constitutional morality

In a case like Sabarimala, it invites us to ask: How are liberty and equality to be reconciled with the autonomy of institutions? When does a practice...

11.04.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Democracy has already lost the war

Even those fully aware of the impending catastrophe feel utterly disarmed and disempowered, as though democracy itself has been evacuated as a site...

01.04.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Democracy has already lost the war

01.04.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Democracy has already lost the war

01.04.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Revisiting ‘The Wealth of Nations’ and its abiding suspicion of concentrated power

09.03.2026 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Revisiting ‘The Wealth of Nations’ and its abiding suspicion of concentrated power

09.03.2026 20

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An aimless war is waged as spectacle. We have all devised new strategies of moral evasion

The real obscenity of this moment is not simply the war itself; it is the normalisation of a world in which war has become performance. But if the...

08.03.2026 30

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An aimless war is waged as spectacle. We have all devised new strategies of moral evasion

The real obscenity of this moment is not simply the war itself; it is the normalisation of a world in which war has become performance. But if the...

07.03.2026 30

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An aimless war is waged as spectacle. We have all devised new strategies of moral evasion

07.03.2026 50

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P B Mehta writes: As we contemplate possibilities of AI, it is wreaking enduring transformations in state-capital relations

The firms leading this transformation — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google — no longer resemble ‘light’ digital platforms. They look more...

21.02.2026 20

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Yogendra Yadav writes: Hiding in row over UGC Regulations is a deep fault line, social, ideological and political

03.02.2026 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Epstein Files aren't an 'island story'. They are about the nature of collective power

03.02.2026 40

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How to raise a boy: We are fixing the narrative around girls. But what about boys?

14.01.2026 30

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P B Mehta writes: Equality is not the enemy of growth – oligarchy is

14.01.2026 60

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A new year wish for India in 2026 — Let sober realism be the guide, not political fantasy

02.01.2026 10

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Party-state is marching into public universities. There is no one to say no

13.12.2025 60

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Party-state is marching into public universities. There is no one to say no

12.12.2025 10

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Party-state is marching into public universities. There is no one to say no

12.12.2025 20

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Take a bow, AI — you’re getting closer to humanity

24.10.2025 10

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Scale of dynastic politics, across political parties, is a warning and a symptom

24.10.2025 20

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State of Climate Action Report shows record clean-energy investments still inadequate to check temperature rise. Upcoming COP 30 must address i

24.10.2025 20

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Does the collapse of sincerity mark the end of our capacity to make a common world?

24.10.2025 10

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Lessons from a Nobel laureate: To become a knowledge power, India must address structural disconnects in its own knowledge

18.10.2025 30

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Express View on SIR: Bihar shows the way

02.10.2025 10

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Express View: Param is ‘That Girl’

02.10.2025 10

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RBI keeps interest rates unchanged. Now, to wait and watch

02.10.2025 10

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P B Mehta writes: The loneliness of Ram and Gandhi

02.10.2025 20

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Express View on SIR: Bihar shows the way

02.10.2025 10

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Express View: Param is ‘That Girl’

02.10.2025 10

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RBI keeps interest rates unchanged. Now, to wait and watch

02.10.2025 10

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P B Mehta writes: The loneliness of Ram and Gandhi

02.10.2025 10

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P B Mehta writes: Can Indian capital step up when it is needed the most?

29.08.2025 10

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P B Mehta writes: Can Indian capital step up when it is needed the most?

29.08.2025 30

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Alasdair MacIntyre and the oppressions and fictions of modernity

18.08.2025 30

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Giving in to the American state is an affront to India’s dignity

05.08.2025 40

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If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

25.07.2025 30

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If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

24.07.2025 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Hyper nationalism prevents our foreign policy from asking tough questions

17.07.2025 40

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Hyper nationalism prevents our foreign policy from asking tough questions

17.07.2025 10

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In Bihar, now, prove your identity

08.07.2025 10

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In Bihar, now, prove your identity

08.07.2025 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: On Emergency and nationalism, a debate that blinds us to the future

01.07.2025 10

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