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Business News > Mint Authors > Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

ARTICLES BY PRATAP BHANU MEHTA

Students pose for pictures after getting their face painted to pay tribute to frontline workers fighting against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, ahead of the upcoming India's Republic Day celebrations, in Mumbai on January 24, 2021. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP) (AFP)

Republic Day 2021: The real seat of freedom is the imagination

7 min read . 26 Jan 2021

The institutional weaknesses of public institutions stand in contrast to relatively dynamic private and civil society organizations. Photo: Sonu Mehta/HT

Weak public institutions behind India’s low state capacity

7 min read . 15 May 2017

Jawaharlal Nehru (foreground, right) at a meeting of the Constituent Assembly. Photo: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Getty Images

Our ‘un-Indian’ Constitution

7 min read . 04 Apr 2016

Illustration: Jayachandran / Mint

Creating a credible state

4 min read . 03 Apr 2009