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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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Difference between Islamisation and hindutva

Modi hugs every Muslim leader in the world, but not the Indian Muslims. Why?

By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 01, 2023

Modi government is a gross failure in confronting Chinpak

Our present stance is a saga of confusion

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 17, 2023

Nation needs more compassion and less hypocrisy

The civility of a nation is measured by its treatment of its minorities (read Muslims

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 03, 2023

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

Narendra Modi seems to forget that Indians on every other metric are poor

By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 20, 2023

Uniform Civil Code and the Rajiv Gandhi precedent

Rajiv Gandhi carefully listened to what the shariat said on the subject

By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 06, 2023

Does Modi really care for pasmanda Muslims?

It is almost entirely Muslim pasmanda who are victims of lynching

By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 23, 2023

Kashmiris want elections

I was there to gauge the general mood

By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 09, 2023

Narendra Modi’s SAARC ploy

We are united as a nation only because of our “unity in diversity”

By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 25, 2023

Double engine sarkar has wreaked havoc in Manipur

Manipur in microcosm is the fate awaiting India if saffron rule is continued in 2024

By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 11, 2023

We cannot wish Pakistan away—and we should not

Should India continue the nearly decade-old disengagement with Pakistan?

By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 28, 2023

Diminishing the Mughal period

The pretence that Mughals are given too much prominence is a political prejudice

By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 14, 2023

Can a govt-appointed fact-check body be effective?

Misinformation is best tackled in the open

By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 30, 2023

It's UK's Indian-origin PM versus Scotland's Pak-origin leader

Yousaf’s clarion call has been “Stronger for Scotland

By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 16, 2023

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
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