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

    20 Dec 2020 7:20 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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...

    7 Dec 2020 9:36 AM IST

    A group of security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation. (AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Theatres of the New Cold War

    The next theatre of the Cold War would be Africa where the Chinese have invested resources much before the formal...

    22 Nov 2020 8:48 PM IST

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    Manish Tewari | The new Cold War

    The Cold War with China will encompass all dimensions — economic, military, cyber, space, cultural and civilisational

    9 Nov 2020 10:47 AM IST

    New Delhi : U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, and Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, left, stand for photographs with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, right, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. In talks on Tuesday with their Indian counterparts, Pompeo and Esper are to sign an agreement expanding military satellite information sharing and highlight strategic cooperation between Washington and New Delhi with an eye toward countering China. AP/PTIOpinion
    Manish Tewari | Talk ties mindfully, do not squander options

    With the People’s Liberation Army of China menacing India’s northern borders it is quite natural for India to look...

    27 Oct 2020 5:45 PM IST

    Farmers light candles in support of the Haryana farmers organisations as they announced to protests against three farm laws on the outskirts of Amritsar. PTI photoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | How farm laws might hurt national security

    After the 1965 war the MSP regime and public procurement were introduced in 1966-67 for wheat and later expanded to...

    12 Oct 2020 3:18 PM IST

    Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping. (ANI file photo)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | The love that wasn-'t at Wuhan and Mamallapuram

    The present confrontation in Ladakh shows that China deceived India by making New Delhi complacent

    27 Sept 2020 8:16 PM IST

    The most draconian lockdown in the world and that too at a four-hour notice completely failed. AFP PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | Vulnerable India faces crucial House session

    With over 44 lakh cases and 75,000 deaths India now ranks second in the world, ahead of Brazil and behind the United...

    11 Sept 2020 5:42 PM IST

    A man waves a historical Belarus flag in front of a riot police blockade during a protest in Minsk, Belarus. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | The centrality of dissent

    Ultimately what remains are the voices of dissidents celebrated for speaking truth to power, for attempting a...

    31 Aug 2020 5:07 PM IST

    : Movement of Indian Army trucks on the Manali-Leh highway, in Manali. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | Find motive to work out Chinese checkers moves

    China has effectively moved the Line Actual Control westwards by creating new facts on the ground along the entire LAC...

    17 Aug 2020 6:38 PM IST

    CRPF personnel guard on a street on the first day of the two-day curfew in Srinagar. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | A year after J&K ambush, many thorny questions remain

    There was never and still isn’t even minimalist support for the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir

    4 Aug 2020 4:38 PM IST

    Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addresses Indian Army soldiers, at Lukung post in Ladakh. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Manish Tewari | Parliament oversight key for reforms in intelligence...

    There is an unnecessary and manufactured culture of secrecy enveloping our national security establishment

    20 July 2020 4:34 PM IST

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