The Everything Crisis foreignaffairs.com/reviews/l… via @ForeignAffairs
Reup from 2020. Sadly the term "judicial barbarism" does not seem to be any less relevant with the times
Pratap Bhanu Mehta retweeted
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.
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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"
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"
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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."
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Questions for Bhagwat indianexpress.com/article/op… via @IndianExpress
Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Gen Z’s parents must answer for their politics, crisis it created
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The significance of the "cockroach" moment and the dangers to follow
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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."












