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

Basic income: An idea whose time has come

Certain humanists commenced toying with the contours of a minimum income in the form of public aid.

3 Feb 2019 12:36 AM IST

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Humour more effective poll tool than expletives

The actor-President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, had a tremendous sense of humour.

20 Jan 2019 12:03 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

The art of propaganda & the politics of cinema

Nazi domination of the German film industry is the supreme example of the usage of films to subserve the fascist...

6 Jan 2019 12:22 AM IST

The US also started turning inwards post its involvement in Afghan and Iraq wars that devastated its economy, leading to huge deficits.

Globalisation's ascent & a multi-polar world

Another interesting phenomena that started delineating itself concurrently was the separation of religious temporal...

23 Dec 2018 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election campaign rally in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Why turn state poll into a presidential face off?

The print media still continues to be quite local in its footprint notwithstanding a few print publications that have a...

9 Dec 2018 1:32 AM IST

Indian troops at the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack site. (Photo: AP)

Pak needs to get over its India obsession

The tragedy is that successive governments in Pakistan have been in complete denial about 26/11.

25 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

In response to the question about the law/statute which gives R&AW the powers/authority to discharge its functions/mandate efficaciously and efficiently, the government did not try and hide behind any obfuscation but candidly admitted, There is no separate/specific statute governing the functions/mandate of the R&AW .

Intelligence agencies need a legal base

Unfortunately, no such law has ever been enacted by successive governments since the commencement of the Constitution.

11 Nov 2018 12:00 AM IST

Over the last few months, the director CBI and his deputy have been trading allegations of corruption against each other.

Is CBI a legal entity?

The CBI has no independent standing in law. It is a piece of legal fiction whose underpinnings in law are tenuous to say...

28 Oct 2018 5:04 AM IST

The NDA/BJP government is looking increasingly cornered on every governance paradigm. However, its weakest link is the gross mismanagement of the Indian economy. (Representational image)

BJP's rule has been bad for the economy

Respected financial analysts are of the view that Rs 57,000 crores out of this Rs 91,000 crores is already a...

14 Oct 2018 2:07 AM IST

Veerappa Moily said in the BJP-led NDA coalition arrangement and understanding, the sense of coexistence, togetherness and cooperation is totally absent. (Photo: File/PTI)

The time has come to junk the IAS

The IAS founded in 1858 as the Indian Imperial Service has remained largely unchanged in its disposition.

30 Sept 2018 5:16 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan

How not to conduct foreign policy!

The Indo-Pakistan gridlock holds the destiny of two billion people to ransom in South Asia.

23 Sept 2018 2:21 AM IST

Donald Trump ordered the creation of a sixth branch. (Photo: Pixabay)

On the frontlines of the new Cold War

While Georgia, Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine have predominantly Christian populations, Azerbaijan is largely Shia Muslim.

16 Sept 2018 12:02 AM IST