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Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari

Supporters of the Bhim Army (above) take part in a march demanding the release of their leader Chandrasekhar Azad and protest against the amended Citizenship Act, NRC and NPR in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: PRITAM BANDYOPADHYAY)

The link between NPR & NRC is obvious

Not only is the link between the NPR and the NRC very obvious, but the BJP-led government's ideological commitment to it...

5 Jan 2020 2:53 AM IST

Students and local residents protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

CAA, NRC will complete divide & rule agenda

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University's initial conception of India, was plaited with secular...

22 Dec 2019 12:05 AM IST

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Is othering a people the object of NRC?

The general census while counting people on the basis of religion in addition to other indices has not stressed upon...

8 Dec 2019 7:04 AM IST

Indian law provides senior citizens with certain basic rights, including the right to maintenance by children and relatives; the right to proper medical aid; the right to social security and integrity; the right to old-age pensions and other related benefits; and the right not to be exploited or ill-treated by others.

Bring seniors back into policy discourse

The most conjoint disability among the aged persons is locomotor and visual disability.

24 Nov 2019 7:05 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Unpacking Fascism's biggity architecture

The principal focus of Fascist architecture was public buildings and boulevards.

11 Nov 2019 12:32 AM IST

Airlines pay several charges to airport operators, both private airports and Airport Authority of India-operated airports, for landing, parking, route navigation and royalty. (Representational image)

Maharajah can rule, given a fair chance

The sell-off effort was revived again by the NDA/BJP government in 2017 but found no takers

27 Oct 2019 12:14 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Stand up and resist the education police

A Nazi commissar was appointed to bludgeon the University into submission.

13 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

The willing participation of the bureaucracy in the Nazi criminal enterprise reached a nadir at the Wannsee Conference on January 24, 1942. In a villa in south Berlin over a sumptuous two-hour lunch laced with fine wines, Nazi apparatchiks, aided by what in the Indian parlance would be joint secretary-level officers drawn from across the German bureaucratic space, firmed up plans for the final solution to the Jewish question. The conference was the equivalent of an inter-ministerial consultation in the Indian context. (Photo:Pixabay)

Bureaucracy and the fascists

When the Nazis seized control in 1933, this permanent establishment formed the core of the German state.

29 Sept 2019 7:18 AM IST

Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Media and fascists: Lessons of history

The Fascists believed that this aspect was critical to reshaping their intrinsic internalisation of Fascism in...

15 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

If courts are vigilant, democracy will be safe

Almost any crime that could be described as political opposition to the Nazi regime ended up before them.

1 Sept 2019 12:28 AM IST

Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

50 shades of grey in 'reintegration' of J&K

The government needed to apply the healing touch rather than alienate the Kashmiris at this juncture.

18 Aug 2019 12:19 AM IST

US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (Photo: AP)

How India has been outplayed in Af-Pak

Indians would like to fault the US for dealing with the Taliban arguing that Washington has done a number on India.

4 Aug 2019 1:06 AM IST