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

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

Russian tanks roll along a street in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Manish Tewari | Putin started Ukraine war, West might just end it

This united Europe like never before much the same way as they had come together to resist Hitler's blitzkrieg 1939...

22 May 2022 12:25 AM IST

Bulldozers being used to remove illegal structures during a joint anti-encroachment drive by NDMC, PWD, local bodies and the police, in the violence-hit Jahangirpuri area, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

Manish Tewari | The bulldozer

The use of the bulldozer as a weapon is not new

8 May 2022 12:22 AM IST

Whatever may be the consequences of Russias invasion of Ukraine, it has delivered a clear message to all countries who had recessed their nuclear aspirations that, if you forsake your nuclear programmes and make your security hostage to tenuous agreements and conventional deterrence, you wager your future. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | How Ukraine conflict will impact non-proliferation

Even Iran, notwithstanding the decades of negotiations with the West, is still in no mood to give up on the nuclear...

24 April 2022 12:38 AM IST

The war in Ukraine now entering into its seventh week, the Russian leadership would do well to reflect upon the consequences of the Frankenstein they have unleashed. (Representational Image/ AP)

Manish Tewari | India's duty: Ask Russia to course-correct in Ukraine

The Russians would do well by reflecting upon some aspects of their own history

10 April 2022 1:09 AM IST

Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully conduct maiden flight test of indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile Pralay from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | Unguided missile: A case for Indo-Pak N-dialogue

The object in all probability a supersonic missile was in Pakistani airspace for three minutes and forty four seconds...

26 March 2022 11:37 PM IST

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its...

13 March 2022 1:31 AM IST

People take part in a protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP)

Manish Tewari | Gloves off as New Iron Curtain falls on world

In his rather rambling walk through the park of history Vladimir Putin tried to lay out his much flawed case for the...

27 Feb 2022 1:43 AM IST

It is baffling as to why in the business advisory committee meetings the leaders of Opposition in both houses have not jointly and collectively pressed aggressively for a discussion on the border situation qua China. (Representational Image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | Why Parliament must discuss China

While the Opposition is willing to stall Parliament on every other issue its silence on China is deafening

13 Feb 2022 2:14 AM IST