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

Indian law provides senior citizens with certain basic rights, including the right to maintenance by children and relatives; the right to proper medical aid; the right to social security and integrity; the right to old-age pensions and other related benefits; and the right not to be exploited or ill-treated by others.

Bring seniors back into policy discourse

The most conjoint disability among the aged persons is locomotor and visual disability.

24 Nov 2019 7:05 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Unpacking Fascism's biggity architecture

The principal focus of Fascist architecture was public buildings and boulevards.

11 Nov 2019 12:32 AM IST

Airlines pay several charges to airport operators, both private airports and Airport Authority of India-operated airports, for landing, parking, route navigation and royalty. (Representational image)

Maharajah can rule, given a fair chance

The sell-off effort was revived again by the NDA/BJP government in 2017 but found no takers

27 Oct 2019 12:14 AM IST

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Stand up and resist the education police

A Nazi commissar was appointed to bludgeon the University into submission.

13 Oct 2019 12:05 AM IST

The willing participation of the bureaucracy in the Nazi criminal enterprise reached a nadir at the Wannsee Conference on January 24, 1942. In a villa in south Berlin over a sumptuous two-hour lunch laced with fine wines, Nazi apparatchiks, aided by what in the Indian parlance would be joint secretary-level officers drawn from across the German bureaucratic space, firmed up plans for the final solution to the Jewish question. The conference was the equivalent of an inter-ministerial consultation in the Indian context. (Photo:Pixabay)

Bureaucracy and the fascists

When the Nazis seized control in 1933, this permanent establishment formed the core of the German state.

29 Sept 2019 7:18 AM IST

Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

Media and fascists: Lessons of history

The Fascists believed that this aspect was critical to reshaping their intrinsic internalisation of Fascism in...

15 Sept 2019 12:00 AM IST

Adolf Hitler. (Photo: AFP)

If courts are vigilant, democracy will be safe

Almost any crime that could be described as political opposition to the Nazi regime ended up before them.

1 Sept 2019 12:28 AM IST

Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

50 shades of grey in 'reintegration' of J&K

The government needed to apply the healing touch rather than alienate the Kashmiris at this juncture.

18 Aug 2019 12:19 AM IST

US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (Photo: AP)

How India has been outplayed in Af-Pak

Indians would like to fault the US for dealing with the Taliban arguing that Washington has done a number on India.

4 Aug 2019 1:06 AM IST

The 48-year-old former Naval officer, Kulbhushan Jadhav, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism on April 11, 2017. (Photo: File)

For Pak, Jadhav verdict face-saver, opportunity

The Court notes that the obligation to provide effective review and reconsideration can be carried out in various ways.

21 July 2019 12:18 AM IST

The apex court on September 26 last year had declared the Centres flagship Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid but struck down some of its provisions including its linking with bank accounts, mobile phones and school admissions. (Photo: PTI)

Is your Aadhaar data about to be monetised?

It is another matter that even what the Economic Survey is proposing is also a non-sequitor.

7 July 2019 12:14 AM IST

No wonder according to a recent report, most global internet users lack confidence in what they see and read online, with only 8 per cent believing that the bulk of information shared on social media is true, dropping to 4 per cent when it comes from influencers.

The case for regulating social media in India

The time has come to seriously evaluate the role played by social media in spreading disinformation and hate speech in...

23 Jun 2019 1:42 AM IST