I will continue writing despite joining Ashoka as VC: Pratap Bhanu Mehta

The chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research will be joining Ashoka as its vice- chancellor

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a noted critique and political scientist, has decided to join the newly set up Ashoka University as its vice- chancellor. He has quit as chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a policy think tank based in New Delhi. Mehta has taught at Harvard University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the New York University School of Law in the past and was associated with CPR for more than a decade. In an interview to Sahil Makkar, Mehta says Ashoka has a possibility of becoming a world class institution and an example before the others. Edited excerpts: