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

Supreme Court of India. (Photo: File)

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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. Dhanoa

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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he delivers a speech after the awards ceremony of National Awards for Excellence in Journalism, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

A half government

The first casualty of the past 30 months are India's liberal and creative spaces.

12 Dec 2016 12:12 AM IST

Old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes placed in an order that reads BAN in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Note ban: Legality is questionable

The law permitted withdrawal of a series of banknotes and not the scrapping of an entire denomination.

2 Dec 2016 12:18 AM IST