Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta quits as Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University to return to academics

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University has resigned from his post citing return to full-time academic life as the reason behind his resignation.

Arnab Goswami among four new appointees to Nehru Memorial Museum and Library society; Pratap Bhanu Mehta resigns

Goswami will be replacing Pratap Bhanu Mehta, who resigned from his position to protest the manner in which the institution’s reputation and integrity were being compromised by attempts to foist a politically-connected bureaucrat, Shakti Sinha, as director,

Ashoka University sexual harassment case: Complainant says she got no justice; institute claims it stuck to due process

Ashoka University students and alumni wrote an open letter on a website on the plight of the woman who accused professor Mitul Baruah of sexual harassment.

Demonetisation: Why should poor be only ones to make sacrifices for Modi's mission?

Already some 50-odd people have died as a result of demonetisation

Aamir Khan has rights, so do his critics: Here's why I won't call you unpatriotic, Pratap Bhanu Mehta

His disingenuous framing of the Aamir Khan controversy not as a simple question of his free speech and others but in terms of emotive, vague, illiberal and manipulable concepts like patriotism and shame further distorts and constricts the space for genuine liberal discourse in India.

Dear Modi, you will be the biggest loser if Parliament turns into akhara for ego-tussles

Modi will have to change his strategy. He will have to break the gridlock of antagonism, hubris and confrontation in Parliament.

Season of ghar wapsi: Intellectuals go back 'home' after brief Modi infatuation

As ghar wapsi rhetoric gathers steam, the PM’s silence gets louder. And the public pundits, many of whom sick and tired of the UPA sarkar, had thrown their weight behind Modi are having second thoughts. In a season of ghar wapsi, some are going back “home” after a brief Modi infatuation.

Gas pricing: Govt to appoint committee to review Rangarajan formula

The panel will comprise of Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and Chief Executive of Centre for Policy Research and Bibek Debroy of the same institute, an Oil Ministry official said.<br />

Govt to appoint committee to review Rangarajan gas pricing formula

The government will appoint a committee under former Power Minister Suresh Prabhu to review a gas pricing formula approved by the previous UPA regime.

A culture of distrust: How India's ruling class feeds on paranoia

Pratap Bhanu Mehta argues that a changing India has left the ruling class uncertain of its position, and is therefore resorting to "intellectual closure and emotional crudity" to preserve itself.