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

The Supreme Court has chosen to make public its reiterated recommendations with regard to certain judges whose appointments the government has been sitting on for over five years now. (Representational Image)

Manish Tewari | Who should appoint judges?

A joint house judiciary committee must be constituted by bringing about an appropriate Constitutional amendment

28 Jan 2023 12:10 AM IST

Manish Tewari | Freebies and welfare: Time to define critical...

Freebies need to be defined clearly and the definition tailored precisely

15 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Peace or permacrisis': What's the 2023 mantra?

Permacrisis was the Collins Dictionary's word of the year, perhaps unsurprisingly, as we lived through great upheavals

1 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

View of Parliament House ahead of its Monsoon session in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Should Parliament codify basic structure doctrine?

The basic structure doctrine is a feature of modern and progressive democracy

18 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

View of Parliament House ahead of its Monsoon session in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | What ails Parliament?

A salient instrument of holding government accountable is Question Hour

3 Dec 2022 11:48 PM IST

Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the decisions of the GST Council are only recommendatory in nature and not binding on the Centre and the states. (Photo:PTI)

Manish Tewari | What about merit... and equality of opportunity?

The question, therefore, is not reservation but how much?

20 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Dragon desperate in wake of Xi's congress

From being the sick man of Asia at the turn of the 20th century to its current wolf warrior status, China has indeed...

23 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

US economy entered recession in February. (AP Photo)

Manish Tewari | Is the world heading into another recession?

Macroeconomic instability is bound to impact living standards and increase poverty

9 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Russian army soldiers marching during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | What India can do to end the Ukraine war

The world must, therefore, urgently push Russia to negotiate and accept the fact that Ukraine is, after all, a sovereign...

25 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

INS Vikrant, Indias first indigenously-built aircraft carrier. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Can India become an Indian Ocean power?

India sits astride critical sea lines of communication, a position that uniquely empowers it to become a truly regional...

11 Sept 2022 12:09 AM IST

A man offers sweets to people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, after they came out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, in Godhra on August 15. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bilkis Bano and the fault in our criminal justice...

Even the Centre's recent remission policy for release of prisoners on Independence Day excluded rape convicts from its...

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM IST