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

Today there are 5.03 billion Internet users around the world and 4.9 billion of these use social media. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | Behind all social media ills: Not privacy, but...

Unchecked proliferation of anonymous accounts has weaponised Internet, turning it into a veritable orgy of hate violence...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Dragon desperate in wake of Xi's congress

From being the sick man of Asia at the turn of the 20th century to its current wolf warrior status, China has indeed...

23 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

US economy entered recession in February. (AP Photo)

Manish Tewari | Is the world heading into another recession?

Macroeconomic instability is bound to impact living standards and increase poverty

9 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

File photo of Russian army soldiers marching during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | What India can do to end the Ukraine war

The world must, therefore, urgently push Russia to negotiate and accept the fact that Ukraine is, after all, a sovereign...

25 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

INS Vikrant, Indias first indigenously-built aircraft carrier. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Can India become an Indian Ocean power?

India sits astride critical sea lines of communication, a position that uniquely empowers it to become a truly regional...

11 Sept 2022 12:09 AM IST

A man offers sweets to people convicted for rape and murder in the Bilkis Bano case of the 2002 post-Godhra riots, after they came out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, in Godhra on August 15. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Bilkis Bano and the fault in our criminal justice...

Even the Centre's recent remission policy for release of prisoners on Independence Day excluded rape convicts from its...

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM IST

File photo of the Partition of 1947. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, it's time to bury Partition legacy

Would un-partitioned India have survived the centrifugal tendencies that a constitutionally weak Centre would have...

14 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

With the Russia-Ukraine war getting prolonged, New Delhi has been looking at ways to soften the blow that it received in the form of three-digit crude oil price. (Representational image: Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The realpolitik of war in terms of commerce

In the middle of all this mayhem there is commerce

30 July 2022 11:37 PM IST

Manish Tewari | An encirclement India must avoid at all costs

Does India even have its eye on the ball given that the world around it is swivelling at a dizzying pace?

16 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde plays chess at a hotel where he is staying with supporting MLAs, in Guwahati. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Scrap defection law, find a new way to ensure probity

The fact remains that over the past 37 years the anti-defection law has failed to fulfil the foremost objective for...

2 July 2022 11:43 PM IST

The new generation nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni P being successfully tested by the DRDO from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha, on Dec. 18, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | The deterrence dynamic in India-China-Pak triad

No First Use benchmark was considered unique to Chinese strategic thinking

18 Jun 2022 11:40 PM IST

What we must first do is disabuse ourselves of any fanciful nations that India either has strategic interests or can be a player in Afghanistan. (Representational Image/ Bloomberg)

Manish Tewari | Does India have strategic interests in Afghanistan?

The fact is that India has been a bit player in Afghanistan since 1979

5 Jun 2022 12:36 AM IST