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Manish Tewari

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 nation

25 Sep 2022 12:15 AM

INS Vikrant, India’s 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 naval power

11 Sep 2022 12:09 AM

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 system

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

28 Aug 2022 12:09 AM

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 brought along with it?

14 Aug 2022 12:10 AM

India’s oil imports from Russia swelled to a high of about 950,000 barrels per day in June of 2022 accounting for close to a fifth of its overall imports. (Representational image: Twitter)

Manish Tewari | The realpolitik of war in terms of commerce

In the middle of all this mayhem there is commerce

30 Jul 2022 11:37 PM

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 Jul 2022 11:55 PM

The coup d’état in the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra leading to the ouster of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government once again underscores the complete redundancy of the anti-defection legislative mechanism. (PTI Image)

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 which it was enacted

02 Jul 2022 11:43 PM

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

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

05 Jun 2022 12:36 AM

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 onwards

22 May 2022 12:25 AM

NewsOn May 1, Labour Day, the administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh deployed the ubiquitous bulldozer to flatten the homes and hearth of 4,000 working class families in the name of making the City Beautiful slum-free. (Representational Image/PTI)

Manish Tewari | The bulldozer

The use of the bulldozer as a weapon is not new

08 May 2022 12:22 AM

Whatever may be the consequences of Russia’s 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 option

24 Apr 2022 12:38 AM

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 Apr 2022 1:09 AM

The Pakistani officials further accused India of endangering both international and domestic air craft that ostensibly were in close vicinity of the missile. (Representational Image/ 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 before fading away

26 Mar 2022 11:37 PM

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 fundamental linchpin

13 Mar 2022 1:31 AM

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 aggression on Ukraine

27 Feb 2022 1:43 AM

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

India’s savings rate had touched a 15-year-low as gross domestic savings stood at 30.9 per cent of GDP in financial year 2020-21, down from a peak of 34.6 per cent in the financial year 2012-13. (Representational Image/ DC File)

Manish Tewari | Budget 22’s key challenge: Employment generation

Every economy runs on four fundamentals employment, consumption, savings, and investment

30 Jan 2022 1:05 AM

This handout picture taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on January 14, 2022 shows Russian troops unboarding a military cargo plane upon landing in Ivanovo after compleeting their mission in Kazakhstan. (AFP)

Manish Tewari | From Russia with love

According to information available in the public space, Russian forces are currently surrounding Ukraine from three sides

17 Jan 2022 2:42 AM

Drones have low Radar Cross Section (RCS), slow speed and a small size lending to its stealth and concealment advantages in battlefields, and thereafter, making it difficult to identify and localise. (Representative Image: ANI)

Manish Tewari | India needs to gear up for battle in world of drones

Today drones have become an important part of military arsenals across the world

02 Jan 2022 1:42 AM

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