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
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Shobhaa De
- Anita Pratap
- Anuja Chauhan
- Shashi Tharoor
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Bibek Debroy
- Navtej Sarna
- Barkha Dutt
- 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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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
Shah’s selective compassion
The quality of compassion, like “the quality of mercy”, as Portia told Shylock, “is
By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 11, 2020
Modi-Shah’s triple talaq
The Romans had a saying: “Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad”.
By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 28, 2019
Jinnah’s Hindu proxies
Alone among the politicians of pre-independence India, V.D. Savarkar, president of
By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 14, 2019
Modi’s Great Leap Forward
I was at university in Delhi (1958-1961) when Chairman Mao undertook his Great Leap
By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 30, 2019
Stunt with saffron robe
Much of the south has held out against the BJP, but none more so than Tamil Nadu.
By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 16, 2019
Learn the right lessons
So, there is life still left in the old warhorse. The totally unexpected performance
By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 02, 2019