Top
Home » Manish Tewari
Manish Tewari
About the AuthorManish Tewari
Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari
    Intelligence Bureau logoOpinion
    State of the Union: Time for intelligence reforms?

    The bill also provided for the constitution of a “national intelligence and security oversight committeeâ€.

    19 March 2016 1:00 AM IST

    Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presenting the Annual Budget 2016-17 in the Lok Sabha. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    State of the Union: Honey, I shrunk the economy!

    StatThe Budget has some paragraphs devoted to public investment which, in any case, cannot kick-start the economy.e of...

    5 March 2016 1:29 AM IST

    JNU teachers and students form a human chain inside the campus in protest against arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    State of the Union: Pulp patriotism

    First and foremost, the progenitor of the BJP, the RSS, has a visceral hatred for the JNU.

    20 Feb 2016 1:10 AM IST

    The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India as the regulator of the backend of the broadcasting sector was at war with the broadcast industry. Representational imageOpinion
    State of the Union: Media ethics & self-regulation

    Media freedoms are too fragile and precious to be left to the tender mercies of the state.

    6 Feb 2016 1:26 AM IST

    Soldiers keep guard at the perimeter fence of the Air Force base in Pathankot, Punjab. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    State of the Union: The geopolitics of Pathankot

    Pakistan buried Ufa by ordering proxies to attack Gurdaspur.

    23 Jan 2016 1:52 AM IST

    State of the Union: Talking some sense into the talksOpinion
    State of the Union: Talking some sense into the talks

    Patronise the Khalistanis and every other insurgent who is willing to take up arms against the Indian state.

    12 Dec 2015 6:42 AM IST

    State of the Union: Make ‘Indo-Pacific’ meaningfulOpinion
    State of the Union: Make ‘Indo-Pacific’ meaningful

    The net upside for India would be transforming the ‘Indo-Pacific’ from an abstract into a strategic reality

    28 Nov 2015 7:18 AM IST

    State of the Union: The sum of Modi’s diplomacy is zeroOpinion
    State of the Union: The sum of Modi’s diplomacy is zero

    It belittles India to witness the Prime Minister working as a cheerleader for some sheikhs in the Gulf by getting the...

    3 Oct 2015 12:07 PM IST

    Fortress EuropeOpinion
    Fortress Europe

    If Europes becomes impenetrable, the multitudes would inevitably turn East

    20 Sept 2015 12:39 PM IST

    State of the Union: Regression for progressionOpinion
    State of the Union: Regression for progression

    The agitation of Patels in Gujarat has once again brought attention to the infuriating business of reservations in...

    5 Sept 2015 6:29 AM IST

    The politics and poetics of deathOpinion
    The politics and poetics of death

    Yakub Memon, a convict in the Bombay serial blasts case of 1993, was hung by the neck until death on July 30, 2015. He...

    8 Aug 2015 5:26 AM IST

    The politics of mercy petitionsOpinion
    The politics of mercy petitions

    What if Memon’s clemency appeal had come up before the earlier Presidents and not Pranab Mukherjee?

    22 July 2015 12:51 PM IST

    X
    sidekick