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Manish Tewari
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Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari
    Volunteers conduct thermal screening at Dharavi, during the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, in Mumbai. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | India’s bankruptcy of infra, ideas on display

    After the lockdown was announced it is indeed intriguing why the health minister Harshvardhan was not briefing the...

    10 Jun 2020 2:20 AM IST

    A passenger is thermally screened as he arrives at Chaudhary Charan Singh airport for domestic travel during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari: Locked down in India, a view from the ground

    While the middle classes and the rich retreated under their beds the poor baulked and decided to get home to the safety...

    25 May 2020 5:12 PM IST

    : Migrants stand in a queue to board a train to their native places, during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, at Mangaluru Junction Railway Station, Monday. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari: India rushes headlong into summer of death

    It begs an obvious question if governments are not there to help citizens in need what else are they there for?

    11 May 2020 5:29 PM IST

    This photo taken on April 24, 2020, shows medical personnel taking swab samples of a man for nucleic acid testing as part of COVID-19 pandemic measures, at a health services centre in Suifenhe, in Chinas northeastern Heilongjiang province. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Does China have a case to answer on Covid-19?

    There is a considerable body of scientific opinion that believes that SARS-COV-2 actually escaped from the Wuhan...

    26 April 2020 7:21 PM IST

    Schoolgirls share a bed at a primary health centre in rural India. (AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari: What we need is a New Deal for health

    It'll take 6 lakh crore rupees to build from the ground up, but let's do it

    14 April 2020 7:36 PM IST

    TV grab taken from the World Health Organization website shows WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as he delivers a news briefing on COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) from the WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 30, 2020. (AFP)Opinion
    Covid-19 is this century's global inflection point

    In the post-Covid-19 world the institutions of global governance would have to be revisited and remodelled

    31 March 2020 11:59 AM IST

    The design of RBI limits its abilitiesOpinion
    The design of RBI limits its abilities

    The time has come to repeal the central bank-'s antiquated 1934 legal architecture

    15 March 2020 10:34 PM IST

    His attitude was vintage Air India. And I was so relieved that it still exists at least in a few dedicated employees. It is, of course, very hard to ignore reports of on-board scuffles, regular no-shows by crew members, sudden sick leave absentees, drunk pilots and co-pilots, stories of sexual abuse and nepotism, apart from a cavalier attitude thrown at paying passengers.Opinion
    The govt’s grand garage sale of Air India

    The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

    1 March 2020 1:00 AM IST

    The LIC was established in 1956 with a capital of Rs 5 crore and is today estimated to be valued around Rs 8-10 lakh crore.Opinion
    India’s public sector is going downhill

    PSUs not only play a pivotal role in the economy, but also contribute overall to nation building.

    16 Feb 2020 4:58 AM IST

    The budget provides you a big picture view of your financial life. (Representational image)Opinion
    Budget 2020: India is cruising for a bruising

    Unemployment is rising sharply, consumption, savings and investment are down and inflation is rearing its ugly head...

    2 Feb 2020 4:32 AM IST

    General Qasem Soleimani (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Soleimani was the glue of Resistance Axis

    The contested lands now labeled as the “Palestine question” were once a part of Ottoman Syria.

    19 Jan 2020 5:18 AM IST

    Thousands of people marched on the streets with DMK president MK Stalin and other opposition party leaders to protest against the CAA on Monday. (Photo: File)Opinion
    The link between NPR & NRC is obvious

    Not only is the link between the NPR and the NRC very obvious, but the BJP-led government’s ideological commitment to...

    5 Jan 2020 3:08 AM IST

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