Mehta hands over the award to Neha Dixit Wednesday. Prem Nath Pandey Mehta hands over the award to Neha Dixit Wednesday. Prem Nath Pandey“Nationalism has always had a problematic relationship with truth,” said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President of Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi and contributing editor at The Indian Express Wednesday. Mehta was delivering the B G Verghese Memorial Lecture 2015 — named after veteran journalist B G Verghese — on the subject, ‘Truth and Politics in Our Times’. Reflecting on the current political climate in India and abroad, Mehta said, “There are three operations that nationalism does to us: abstraction, alienation and amplification.

Source: Indian Express March 01, 2017 21:56 UTC