The perils of presidentialism
Shashi Tharoor in a newspaper article has attempted to revive an old argument about
By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 16, 2020
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Bibek Debroy
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anita Pratap
- Shobhaa De
- Anuja Chauhan
- Navtej Sarna
- Barkha Dutt
- Shashi Tharoor
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019 -
Preventing chronic kidney disease
By Dr Bharat V. Shah July 20, 2019 -
Building capacity
By Dr Sanjiv Kumar July 20, 2019 -
Patient safety, the prime priority
By Pavan Mocherla June 15, 2019 -
Hit in the heart
By Dr C.N. Manjunath May 25, 2019 -
Five worrying factors this election season
May 18, 2019
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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Fix with flexibility
If Pakistan had not been torn out of Mother India, our most difficult neighbour
By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 02, 2020
Pax Sinica: Did China-watchers caution Modi?
The elite corps of our foreign service are the Mandarin-speaking China experts. It
By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 19, 2020
Strive for a settlement
The India-China border in the western sector is neither defined, delimited or
By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 05, 2020
Reassert our nonalignment
The Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, in an article in the highly
By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 21, 2020
Insensitive diplomacy at its peak
The current stand-off between India and Nepal is over an isosceles triangle-shaped
By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 07, 2020
Gujarat model of failure
On May 9, The Indian Express carried two apparently unrelated Covid-19 stories on
By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 24, 2020
Corona, communalism and class conflict
As in a time of war, the Covid-19 pandemic should have united our country. Instead,
By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 10, 2020
Pots, pans and the pandemic
If Narendra Modi had ever been really poor, his first thoughts on Covid-19 would
By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 26, 2020
Eight takeaways from Shaheen Bagh
The 100-day protest at Shaheen Bagh is over, worsted not by the Narendra Modi
By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 12, 2020
Breaking point? Not yet
Does JEXIT—the rather witty term for Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit—really matter? The
By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 29, 2020
Keeping hindutva at bay
Now that so many Congress luminaries have stirred the pot of our sorrows, may I
By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 07, 2020
Postcard from Srinagar
Time was when a postcard from Srinagar meant a pretty picture of colourful shikaras
By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 22, 2020
The school of protests
I went to Paris in May 1968 to be part of the student uprising that startled the
By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 08, 2020
How Pakistanis view Pakistan
I was at the Afkar-e-Taza (innovative thinking) ThinkFest in Lahore, held on January
By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 25, 2020