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

Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the decisions of the GST Council are only recommendatory in nature and not binding on the Centre and the states. (Photo:PTI)

Manish Tewari | What about merit... and equality of opportunity?

The Supreme Court's judgment in Janhit Abhiyan vs Union of India upheld the One Hundred and Third Amendment to the...

20 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

It is a known fact that many leaders have taken a head start and are using social media to prepare the ground for the next elections. (Photo:AFP)

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

The Internet or the World Wide Web was the most impudent tryout in anarchy and it succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of...

6 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

The CPC under its overlord Xi Jinping refuses to play second fiddle to any global power. (AP)

Manish Tewari | Dragon desperate in wake of Xiâ€™s congress

Ever wondered why a once-in-five-year opaque jamboree called the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC)...

23 Oct 2022 12:03 AM IST

US economy entered recession in February. (AP Photo)

Manish Tewari | Is the world heading into another recession?

In September 2008, Wall Street collapsed and triggered a full blown financial crisis. It marked the beginning of a...

9 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST

Russian army soldiers march during an action in support for the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine, at the Mamaev Kurgan, a World War II memorial in Volgograd, Russia, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov, file)

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

On the 5th of April earlier this year, while leading the debate on the Russia-Ukraine crisis in the Lok Sabha, I had...

25 Sept 2022 12:15 AM IST

INS Vikrant, Indias first indigenously-built aircraft carrier, to be commissioned on September 2. (Photo: PTI)

Manish Tewari | Can India become an Indian Ocean power?

With the induction of INS Vikrant as its first indigenously built aircraft carrier, India seems all set to further...

11 Sept 2022 12:16 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, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (PTI)

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

The Supreme Court has issued a notice on a petition challenging the recent decision of the Gujarat government to remit...

28 Aug 2022 12:11 AM IST

Put simply, the Partition of 1947 was the tearing apart of our undivided subcontinent. (AP Photo)

Manish Tewari | 75 years later, itâ€™s time to bury Partition legacy

Tomorrow Independent India would be 75 years old. If the British would not have partitioned India it would have been a...

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

It has been 21 weeks since the Russian aggression of Ukraine. The war has receded from many news cycles and front pages...

30 July 2022 11:37 PM IST

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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 11:45 PM IST