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Manish Tewari
About the AuthorManish Tewari
Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari
    China succeeded in bringing together various countries together on one platform for the OBOR project President Xi Jinping with leaders and delegates attending the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Mera bhashan hi mera prashashan hai

    In the past three years, social cohesion has been the biggest casualty.

    27 May 2017 1:15 AM IST

    File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    After 4 incidents, back to square one

    The situation in J&K is belly up for the lack of a better word.

    13 May 2017 12:11 AM IST

    Supreme Court of India. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Will basic structure' be nation's saviour?

    To get over the bar of the Kesvananda Bharti judgment, the 42nd Amendment was enacted into law by Parliament in 1976.

    29 April 2017 6:06 AM IST

    File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Why Jadhav needs to be brought back

    India should make Jadhav a test case of its resolve to get our fellow citizen back home.

    15 April 2017 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    India now yearns for a strong Opposition

    Oxymoronically, it is the great Indian middle class that is now feeling insecure with the electoral choices they have...

    1 April 2017 3:01 AM IST

    The government has proposed a penal tax rate of 50 per cent to incentivise black money hoarders to switch to formal economy.Opinion
    World needs shift to a fairer deal for the 99 per cent

    Today, just eight people in the world own as much wealth as half the human population does.

    18 March 2017 2:01 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump after his first address to a joint session of Congress in Washington. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Dysfunctional US fuels global anxiety

    In America now a third category of politicos has come and they are called the Trumpies the supporters and followers...

    4 March 2017 5:23 AM IST

    A US judge said the 17-year-old Maine boy should be tried as an adult or a juvenile on charges that he killed his parents. (Photo: Representational)Opinion
    Free speech laws must be made stronger

    Unlike the US, the Indian Constitution does not guarantee the freedom of the press.

    18 Feb 2017 6:20 AM IST

    Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addresses a Post-Budget press conference in New Delhi on Wendnesday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Junk failed models, focus on the 99 per cent

    It does not require rocket science to know the truth of those assertions.

    4 Feb 2017 12:07 AM IST

    US President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the US Capitol on Friday in Washington, DC, after he was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    With Trump in charge, world faces dilemmas

    Donald Trump has triumphed and now the show must begin in right earnest.

    21 Jan 2017 2:11 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday greeted his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his birthday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    From depressing 2016 to schizophrenic 2017

    2016 was just a baby step in trying to anchor the discourse 90 degrees to the right.

    7 Jan 2017 12:44 AM IST

    Lt. Gen. Bipin Rawat and Air Marshal B.S. DhanoaOpinion
    Supersession: All have right to ask questions

    Whenever it has happened in the past it has left the institution deeply wounded.

    24 Dec 2016 5:08 AM IST

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