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Manish Tewari

The Supreme Court in A.K. Gopalan v. Nordeen, 1969, held that a publication which is made after the “arrest” of a person amounts to contempt if it is biased to the suspect. (PTI Photo)

Manish Tewari | Social media lynch mobs subverting course of justice

Till the time the highest court has not spoken the above dictum remains the gold standard of both criminal and civil law

12 Sep 2021 2:59 AM

Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex China’s Trade Muscle by visiting to Rare Earths Hub, mining sites and plants frequently. (Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The rare earth metal race: How India lost it to China

China currently controls nearly 90 per cent of the world’s REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its global supply chain

29 Aug 2021 1:38 AM

Since India’s military reform process will be equally intricate, protracted, and even complicated with competing and conflicting demands, claims, issues, and even turf battles that would have to be reconciled, the legislature needs to play a far more pro-active role. Representational Image. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | Does India need theatre commands?

The combatant command President selects needs to have served in at least one joint responsibility role in a senior command position

01 Aug 2021 1:01 AM

No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan

It perhaps may be instructive for Indian strategic elites to acknowledge the American trajectory of leaving allies in the lurch

18 Jul 2021 1:45 AM

News.The Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrated a hundred years of its existence on the 1st of July. (AFP Photo)

Manish Tewari | Break the Chinese puzzle by studying CPC's game

The current commentary is about this distinctive organisation that lies at the heart of an emerging system of global dominance

04 Jul 2021 12:10 AM

Galwan clash was the most grave confrontation after the October 20 1975 ambush by the Chinese at Tulung La in which four Assam Rifles personnel lost their lives. (Representational image: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Modi pause on Chumar set the tone for Galwan

In Doklam, in the June of 2017, the NDA/BJP government was more interested in a propaganda triumph rather than a substantive outcome

20 Jun 2021 7:31 AM

Throughout the past seven years the government has used all means necessary to rupture the federal structure of the country. (Photo: PTI/File)

Manish Tewari | Acche Din: No one ever said it would be this hard

The Indian economy has tanked to its worst performing levels

06 Jun 2021 12:26 PM

The Shaksgam valley alone is home to 242 glaciers that can serve as the grand reservoir of fresh water for Chinese chip manufacturing. It, therefore, becomes imperative to view the Sino-Indian standoff through this technological lens also. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | War of the chips

The semiconductor industry requires two key resources sand and freshwater. They are the basic raw materials

23 May 2021 12:40 AM

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

09 May 2021 12:00 AM

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 guard down

25 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

What then are India’s 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 context

11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

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 Mar 2021 4:49 AM

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 Mar 2021 4:48 AM

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

India’s 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

Manish Tewari | A New Deal for India

Our new deal must push demand by both putting money both into the economy and directly into the hands of the people

31 Jan 2021 12:23 AM

When the Supreme Court finally does decide to hear the farm laws matter, for many petitions that deal with equally contentious decisions taken by the current government continue hanging fire in the apex court. (PTI)

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 bargaining power

18 Jan 2021 1:33 AM

Manish Tewari | Is institutional collapse this decade’s new story?

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

03 Jan 2021 4:06 AM

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 bills’ 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 suicidal

20 Dec 2020 7:23 AM

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: “It is past time to end the forever wars.”

07 Dec 2020 9:39 AM

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