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

The Indo-China border (AFP)

Manish Tewari | After China-Bhutan deal, India requires fresh eyes

Doklam plateau. Both the Chumbi valley and the Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal are key tactical chokepoints

24 Oct 2021 2:57 AM IST

US President Joe Biden participates is a virtual press conference on national security with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP)

Manish Tewari | AUKUS is the Asian Nato; should India revisit NAM?

The moot point remains, why did the US and, by extension, the UK, undercut their Nato partner France in this manner?

10 Oct 2021 8:45 AM IST

Taliban fighter stand guards in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Manish Tewari | Why the US capitulated to Taliban in Afghanistan

Why did the United States after investing humungous amounts of blood and treasure in Afghanistan cut and run in this...

26 Sept 2021 2:43 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

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 Sept 2021 2:58 AM IST

Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex Chinas 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 worldâ€™s REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its...

29 Aug 2021 1:39 AM IST

As India looks ahead to the 75 years of its existence as a democratic republic the one thing the people of our great nation must internalise is that eternal vigil is the price of liberty. Representational Image. (PTI)

Manish Tewari | As India is 74, pledge to perpetuate Constitution

The transient nature of Constitutions and republics is not the norm but an exception

15 Aug 2021 3:18 AM IST

Since Indias 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...

1 Aug 2021 1:02 AM IST

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No free lunch in diplomacy: Indiaâ€™s lesson in Afghanistan

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

18 July 2021 1:33 AM IST

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...

4 July 2021 12:05 AM IST

India has once again demanded that the two sides go back to the status quo as of mid-April but it wont be an easy task to compel the Chinese to leave the vantage points they have seized both in Galwan and the Finger area around the Pangong Tso lake. PTI Photo

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...

20 Jun 2021 7:09 AM IST

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his principal operative, Union home minister Amit Shah, the saffron partys new sutra is to form a government in a state through any means. (Photo: PTI)

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

The Indian economy has tanked to its worst performing levels

6 Jun 2021 12:26 PM IST

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 12:39 AM IST