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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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Pratap Bhanu Mehta

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

If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?
24.07.2025 40

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

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Hyper nationalism prevents our foreign policy from asking tough questions
17.07.2025 30

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

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

In Bihar, now, prove your identity
08.07.2025 7

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In Bihar, now, prove your identity

In Bihar, now, prove your identity
08.07.2025 30

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

01.07.2025 40

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Conflicts across the world: Dangerous new thresholds

18.06.2025 20

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Justice Yashwant Varma case: In-house inquiry is not immunity

14.06.2025 30

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Justice Yashwant Varma case: Peer review is the proper channel

14.06.2025 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: What a free speech regime requires

14.06.2025 40

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Express View: After the crash

13.06.2025 6

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Reclaiming Deonar landfill, moving a mountain

13.06.2025 10

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Rediscovery of Rodin’s Despair — and lessons in rejuvenation

13.06.2025 10

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After easing of food inflation, the cooling effect

13.06.2025 20

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Justice Yashwant Varma case: In-house inquiry is not immunity

13.06.2025 30

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Justice Yashwant Varma case: Peer review is the proper channel

13.06.2025 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: What a free speech regime requires

13.06.2025 30

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: SC order in Mahmudabad case casts a shadow on our rights

24.05.2025 60

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: SC order in Mahmudabad case casts a shadow on our rights

23.05.2025 10

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India’s IPL moment in AI: A bid for global leadership

18.05.2025 20

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Dealing with Pakistan, weak or strong

12.05.2025 60

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The Pahalgam abyss

24.04.2025 20

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The Pahalgam abyss

24.04.2025 8

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How technology affects balance of power — and the lesson for India

19.04.2025 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India must stand up to Donald Trump, the bully

05.04.2025 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India must stand up to Donald Trump, the bully

05.04.2025 8

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Arun Shourie’s book on Savarkar, A New Icon, is a biting indictment of the Hindutva leader but fails to diagnose what makes his ideology so pervasive in modern India

04.04.2025 20

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The Poetry of Democracy: A Call to Action for a More Just and Equal Society

22.03.2025 10

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Under Trump, America teeters on the edge of authoritarianism

18.03.2025 20

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Marathi history shouldn’t forget Malik Amber, the Muslim leader who united Deccan forces against Mughals

16.03.2025 40

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Centre, state, party: The many conundrums of federalism

14.03.2025 20

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: After Ukraine, imperialism is now the norm

05.03.2025 20

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BJP's Delhi challenge and the Capital's future

20.02.2025 5

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BJP's Delhi challenge and the Capital's future

Perhaps the starting point for thinking about governance is to not begin with a list of schemes, but the contradictions that Delhi must manage.

20.02.2025 8

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Trump wants to show the world who is boss

06.02.2025 10

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Bhanu Mehta writes: Trump wants to show the world who is boss

05.02.2025 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: India’s delusion of relevance

01.02.2025 50

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India's growth slowdown is a signal of declining confidence in government

14.01.2025 8

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Express view on inflation data: Slim pickings for the RBI

14.01.2025 7

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Express view on 2024, the world’s hottest year: Be on alert

14.01.2025 8

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The Third edit: Your serve, Australian Open

14.01.2025 7

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India's growth slowdown is a signal of declining confidence in government

14.01.2025 10

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PB Mehta writes: Five vibes — in politics, economics and creativity — that will shape 2025

These are not predictions; it would be presumptuous to claim omniscience or even foresight. But here are five trends more in the realm of how the...

01.01.2025 10

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Express View: The new year needs a new political imagination

India's 2024 verdict told both Government and Opposition to reset, rethink. Hopefully, that will happen in 2025.

01.01.2025 4

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Express View on ISRO’s SpaDeX mission: A tryst in space

SpaDeX's success will place India in an elite group of nations with space docking capacity, which currently includes only the US, Russia and China.

01.01.2025 5

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The Third Edit: In 2025, self-improvement beyond Ozempic and AI

Technology and its bros may promise placid perfection. But people must make their own New Year resolutions

01.01.2025 10

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The prime minister who read the spirit of the age better than anyone

Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.

27.12.2024 10

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Manmohan Singh was an ideal Nehruvian progressive

Manmohan Singh secured developmental space for India and positioned India brilliantly. It is capital that we are still living off.

27.12.2024 20

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