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

Modernity with all its commitment to freedoms and reason is sought to be subordinated by monumental architecture to the will of the fascist state. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | The architecture of hubris

Fascism has a strange fascination with architecture

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Mass cremation of COVID-19 victims at a crematorium as coronavirus cases surge, in New Delhi, Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | An AWOL government

Downright negligence, coupled with hubris, made the governments, both at the Centre and some in the states, let their...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

What then are Indias options to protect its broader strategic interests, namely, keep the Chinese at bay. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | The long view from New Delhi

The persisting stand-off with China must make India rethink its relationship structures both in the Asian and global...

11 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

A country that lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2004 and 2014 is today staring at the spectre of a growing income and wealth inequality. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | INDIA'S GILDED AGE

This privatisation turned out to be more of a societal shock, rather than therapy for an ailing economy

28 March 2021 4:49 AM IST

Since India is now going to sit at the high table to decide the future of Afghanistan it must seriously consider what real strategic interests it has in Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Does India have strategic interests in Afghanistan?

Hard questions with regard to our real interests in Afghanistan were never asked then and are not being asked even now

14 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

One plausible reason could be that China itself has told Pakistan to hold off. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | The Pak arithmetic: Strategy over ideology

Why didn't Pakistan take advantage of the Sino-Indian stand-off?

28 Feb 2021 4:17 AM IST

Indias ability to negotiate is severely constricted owing to its diminished Net National Power over the past 80 months of the NDA/BJP rule. (Photo:AP)

Manish Tewari | A bad deal

The Sino-Indian disengagement deal in Eastern Ladakh is a bad deal

15 Feb 2021 4:47 AM IST

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Manish Tewari | A New Deal for India

The ill-conceived demonetisation on November 8, 2016, rocked the economy off its haunches

30 Jan 2021 11:43 PM IST

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Manish Tewari | Bolstering corporates was intent of farm laws

Farm laws are intended to give Corporate India a legal licence to muscle in on these small guys who have unequal or no...

18 Jan 2021 1:33 AM IST

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Manish Tewari | Is institutional collapse this decadeâ€™s new story?

The first crisis came with the imposition of internal Emergency on the 25th of June 1975

3 Jan 2021 4:07 AM IST

Farmers shout slogans during their protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu Border in New Delhi on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. (PTI/Ravi Choudhary)

Manish Tewari | Is farm billsâ€™ real aim to cover fiscal deficit?

For a country where 65 per cent of the population lives of agriculture and 36.4 crores are poor this is nothing short of...

20 Dec 2020 7:20 AM IST

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks on November job numbers at the Queen theater on December 4, Wilmington, Delaware. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Manish Tewari | Biden in Afghanistan

Biden inherits. In a piece in the Foreign Affairs magazine in spring, Biden stated: â€œIt is past time to end the...

7 Dec 2020 9:36 AM IST