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

Karnataka Assembly

Don't misuse House privileges to muzzle press

A press that cannot criticise those is power is no press.

8 July 2017 5:55 AM IST

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Is our virtual world making us all zombies?

There was a time when a newspaper gave you a cross-section of everything.

24 Jun 2017 2:44 AM IST

Overall, US President Donald Trump proposed a massive reduction in American aid to South Asian countries. (Photo: AP)

Speaking truth to power: Different choices

The President had identified his enemies by name but even the most powerful man in the world can only rant his...

10 Jun 2017 12:28 AM IST

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)

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)

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)

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