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Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar, a former Union minister who has held portfolios like Panchayati Raj, Petroleum and Natural Gas and Youth Affairs and Sports, is an MP and a social commentator.

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The three women who helped ‘Mrs Chatterjee’

MEA must become proactive in helping Indian parents

By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 02, 2023

Why we secularists must fight on

SC has warned against invoking history “selectively” to “create schisms in society”

By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 19, 2023

Why Congress should 'stoop to conquer'

When the Bharat Jodo Yatra climaxed at Lal Chowk, Srinagar, with Rahul Gandhi

By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 05, 2023

Let JPC probe Adani, says Mani Shankar Aiyar

The charges are specific; Adani’s responses are vague

By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 19, 2023

Why Amit Shah handling Union cooperatives ministry is matter of concern

Shah was director of Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank of Ketan Parekh scam fame

By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 05, 2023

The real toll of Kashmiri Pandits

Both Hindus and Muslims had suffered at the hands of the terrorists

By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 22, 2023

What BJP has achieved in Gujarat is peace of the graveyard

Amit Shah's references to 2002 violence during Gujarat campaign were outrageous

By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 08, 2023

Nadav Lapid, and that a one-sided film - The Kashmir Files

Agnihotri has not served the cause of truth even if he claims ‘facts’ are accurate

By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 18, 2022

Congress dilemma: Press on with secularism or appease Hindutivists?

Congress has often - and justly - been criticised for waffling on ideological issues

By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 04, 2022

Governors should govern themselves

Does Constitution allow BJP to fire from the governor’s shoulder?

By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 20, 2022

Military was guilty in 1962. Why only blame Nehru?

Army did not have the training or experience of higher command

By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 06, 2022

RSS is complicit in systemic polarisation

What has RSS chief done to get BJP “to shun its politics of religious nationalism”?

By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 23, 2022

Congress lion is now roaring again

BJP and its coterie are beginning to learn that India is not the Hindi heartland

By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 09, 2022

Modi is no Subhas Chandra Bose: Mani Shankar Aiyar

For Netaji, the supreme ideal was Hindu-Muslim unity

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 25, 2022

Open letter to Ghulam Nabi Azad

Do you seriously expect to find Congress destiny outside Congress, asks Aiyar

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 11, 2022
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