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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Modi's achche din over the horizon

Working on the philosophy either you are with us or against us', the BJP-RSS have not left any middle ground.

18 March 2018 12:00 AM IST

US President Donald Trump, addresses a plenary session during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos. (Photo: AP)

Dysfunctionality, drift lingers in Trump's US

Ironically, making sense of all this to the world at large is still the swamp that Mr Trump promised to drain.

7 March 2018 3:09 AM IST

The Army has also submitted photographs of the vehicles damaged in the stone pelting by the unruly mob. (Representational Image)

Govt has no policy to deal with Pakistan

What emerges very clearly is that the NDA/BJP government has no policy towards Pakistan whatsoever.

18 Feb 2018 4:52 AM IST

Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of Narendra Modi-led NDA government presented the Union budget 2018-19 on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

The great Indian health fudge

The Indian programme in the Budget, that would cover 10 crore families, has an allocation so far of only Rs 2,000 crore.

4 Feb 2018 12:15 AM IST

Supreme Court judges (from left) Justice Kurian Joseph, Justice Jasti Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur address the media in New Delhi on Friday. (Photo: File/AP)

A democracy in peril

The BJP/RSS has deliberately polarised the media, especially television into us media' and them media'.

21 Jan 2018 1:19 AM IST

China has been stonewalling Indias application to NSG, which regulates the international nuclear commerce, on the ground that India is not a signatory to the NPT. (Photo: File/Representational)

How India lost its neighbourhood

The worst casualty has been our relationship with China. There is an unprecedented Chinese build up taking place in...

7 Jan 2018 12:28 AM IST

More often than not private contractors simply vanish leaving projects incomplete or in a complete mess.

Take them to task

The government, especially it's officers absolved themselves of all accountability for shoddy work.

31 Dec 2017 12:14 AM IST

Former communications minister A. Rajas supporters dance as they celebrate his acquittal by a special court in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

So, what's the story behind 2G scam'?

The insanity of the media trial was so grotesque that logic and reason just disappeared into thin air.

24 Dec 2017 5:18 AM IST

The development marks Xi Jinpings rise as countrys most powerful leader in decades. (Photo: AFP)

Amid new realities, India must keep its balance

India should revitalise its relationship with Russia while taking care not to relive the bonhomie of the Indo-Soviet...

9 Dec 2017 1:53 AM IST

The shell of a building stands amid acres of rubble in this view of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Photo: AP)

It's time to treat India as a N-weapons state

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was devastated and three days later, on August 9, Nagasaki was decimated.

25 Nov 2017 4:56 AM IST

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. (Photo: AFP)

Operation Pawan was a correct strategic call

The success of the accord depended on unstinted political support by both the nations.

11 Nov 2017 12:50 AM IST

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first PM, is mentioned in the book. The book, Love in the Time of Emergency, is set during the Emergency period (1975-77) imposed by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

A point to ponder: Do CMs make good PMs?

India's 12th PM and the first from the BJP, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had a distinguished career as a parliamentarian.

28 Oct 2017 12:12 AM IST