Pratap Bhanu Mehta
The Indian Express
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Past articles by Pratap:
Lula’s victory: Brazil back from the brink?
Brazil has got a reprieve. But this time around, Lula's challenges will be of a far greater magnitude → Read More
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Obstacles to a diplomatic solution in Ukraine
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India and China are not helping the cause of peace. Diplomacy in G20 is about deflecting blame rather than solving the problem → Read More
Udaipur murder: The executioner’s strategy
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Will to condemn this act must be accompanied by commitment to build a free society. Otherwise Kanhaiya’s executioners win → Read More
Mohammed Zubair’s arrest is an inversion of justice
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: This arrest has to be seen as part of the larger pattern: ED and CBI raids whenever political convenient, use of UAPA charges against innocent students, communally targeted bulldozing of properties, control over the media → Read More
Nupur Sharma hate speech row: Beware of half victories
A short-term blow on behalf of civility could be weaponised to endanger free speech and communal harmony in the long run → Read More
The conviction of Yasin Malik
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: As is often the case in Kashmir, one act of closure may open up new and even more ominous questions. → Read More
The conviction of Yasin Malik
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: As is often the case in Kashmir, one act of closure may open up new and even more ominous questions. → Read More
Like Nero, we fiddle as the world burns
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Climate deniers are not the real challenge. Those who do not deny climate change are imprisoned by a sense of unreality. → Read More
With eyes wide open, we’re hurtling into an abyss
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The new Hinduism is about widespread acceptance of vile prejudice, alignment of state with majoritarian power, contempt for rights, glorification of violence → Read More
Putin may lose, but Putinism will survive
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Putin may lose, but Putinism is ascendant as an ideology — now aligning itself with white supremacism, French chauvinism, Israeli right wing assertion, Ottoman dreams, Chinese aggression or Hindutva aggression. → Read More
Ukraine invasion has revealed a new world disorder
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The self-serving stances of all the great powers make it more likely that the world will be marked by more miscalculations, conflict and hubris → Read More
What the March 2022 assembly election results reveal
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The BJP has transformed the nature of politics in ways to which the Opposition has no answer. → Read More
The world must do more to put pressure on Russia
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The brutal truth is that despite outrage in the West, the appetite for doing what it takes to put pressure on Putin is not yet in evidence. → Read More
A separate entrance test for DU won’t solve anything
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: The pressure on Delhi University will be eased if our regional universities are vastly improved → Read More
Can 2022 be a year of cooperation?
Let us hope that the world can steer clear of the conflicts that the major crises of 2021 seem to have made inevitable → Read More
Is there really no alternative to BJP & Modi?
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Amnesia about recent history, pessimism lie behind the persistent refrain, ‘There is no alternative’. → Read More
The limits of the Hindu vs Hindutvavadi debate
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Don’t expect the metaphysical project of defining a true Hindu to bell the political cat of building a decent society → Read More
Is crypto mania more a symptom than a cause?
🔴 Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: We must ask what makes it alluring in the first place, instead of rooting for its ban. → Read More
What the withdrawal of controversial farm laws means
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It dents government’s image of total control, but whether it leads to a constructive dialogue or a sharpening of contradictions remains to be seen → Read More
What is the harassment of Aryan Khan really about?
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: It's not about establishing that everyone is equal before the law. There are larger ideological connections here. → Read More