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.
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 10 January 2010
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'
BY Tarun Das 11 November 2008
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.
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 25 February 2007
Does globalization require an ethic of religious exchange? Should there be a set of norms, unstated conventions, restraints that govern religious exchange?
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 23 November 2006
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
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 22 August 2006
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 Pratap Bhanu Mehta 18 June 2006
'...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
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 23 May 2006
'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
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 21 May 2006
Time to brace up. The historic nuclear deal with the US could have an unpredictable and serious outcome. Is India now in the danger of being drawn into the confrontation between militant Islam and the West, a confrontation that is not of its making?
BY Pratap Bhanu Mehta 6 March 2006
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