Pratap Bhanu Mehta
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The Everything Crisis foreignaffairs.com/reviews/l… via @ForeignAffairs

The Everything Crisis

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a leading Indian political analyst, reviews books by Daron Acemoglu and Adrian Wooldridge on the crisis of liberalism, and he argues that the crisis is much bigger than either...

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Reup from 2020. Sadly the term "judicial barbarism" does not seem to be any less relevant with the times
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The World Today, analyzed by two of India's foremost academics, Indian Express columnists: @pbmehta and @MohanCRaja They help us understand : *Where Iran-US war is headed *The push and pulls in America's relationship with Israel from Obama to Trump. *Past and future of Dubai and the Middle East *How America is competing with China on AI *similarities and differences between student movements across the Indian subcontinent. ...and much more. piped.video/00hFaC00Dj0?si=KLCY…

US, Iran and the New Middle East Order: Expert Analysis with C...

Anant Goenka engages The Indian Express columnists Pratap Bhanu Meh...

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Rubio in Jamnagar, and the gathering storm over Indo-US relations
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A Democratic Reckoning in India

The battle on the streets over the foundations of the state.

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"..... intimidation, deployment of thousands of security personnel in the national capital, as if the state were facing some invading foreign army, not young people making reasonable and non-revolutionary demands"
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P B Mehta writes: a new moment in which mass mobilisation meets an oppressive state. "as if the state were facing some invading foreign army, not young people making reasonable and non-revolutionary demands" indianexpress.com/article/op…

P B Mehta writes: In Delhi, a new moment in which mass mobilisation meets an immovable state

Arrests, intimidation, deployment of thousands of security personnel in the national capital, as if the state were facing some invading foreign army, not young people making reasonable and non-revo...

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"Rarely in the annals of Indian constitutional history have two key institutions, the Supreme Court of India and the Election Commission, acted in tandem with such shameless disregard for the constitutional purpose of their office, inflicting administrative cruelty on citizens and disenfranchising them." indianexpress.com/article/op…

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Election Commission and Court make it harder, not easier, to believe in...

But think of the implications of this dynamic. It is a way of saying that the rot in the system does not begin and end in politics; it saturates a whole elite and perhaps even a generation of voters...

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Questions for Bhagwat indianexpress.com/article/op… via @IndianExpress

Questions for Bhagwat, and how he can easily lay debate over his remarks to rest

The RSS apparently values education. Delhi University is India’s most important public university. It’s a low-hanging fruit for the RSS to display its evolution

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The difficult question Gen Z is asking is not just about Modi. It is more personal.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Gen Z’s parents must answer for their politics, crisis it created indianexpress.com/article/op…

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Gen Z’s parents must answer for their politics, crisis it created

These protests are radical in different ways. The first way is more psychological: It is a refusal to accept fear as a social norm. Some of that fear has been induced by the exacerbating authoritar...

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The significance of the "cockroach" moment and the dangers to follow
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The significance of the "cockroach" moment and the dangers to follow indianexpress.com/article/op…

P B Mehta writes: ‘Cockroaches’ have shown us what it means to be courageous citizens — not subjects

The farmers’ agitation had made the government withdraw legislation. But this is the first time that the government has acknowledged the need for taking responsibility and being held accountable

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From 2024: On elections and exams "So a collapse in trust in the exam system is tantamount to a collapse in trust in the system as a whole. Imagine a day where trust in the UPSC exam collapses. More than a revolution, that might make the Indian state collapse."
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"Evil without Agents": A pathology of contemporary political discourse
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And a question for PM Modi
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