Modi-Shah duo is stoking fire in Mizoram, says Mani Shankar Aiyar
Having singed their fingers with the National Register of Citizens and the
By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 11, 2021Mani 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.
Having singed their fingers with the National Register of Citizens and the
By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 11, 2021When V.K. Sasikala was released from jail in Bengaluru, she feistily decided to
By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 28, 2021In May 2004, to my astonishment, I was asked to take over the petroleum portfolio.
By Mani Shankar Aiyar March 14, 2021That famous phrase-maker, the prime minister of India, has done it again. He coined
By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 28, 2021With state assembly elections looming on the horizon in Assam, the Assam National
By Mani Shankar Aiyar February 14, 2021Splashed across our media are photographs and videos of President Ram Nath Kovind
By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 31, 2021The following are extracts from an interview given by the Congress president after
By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 17, 2021For a historian of some repute, Ramachandra Guha abandons academic restraint for
By Mani Shankar Aiyar January 03, 2021One has heard of adolescents plucking the petals of a daisy muttering, “she/he loves
By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 20, 2020Was India divided in 1947 or twenty years earlier? Back in 1927, the Congress
By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 06, 2020On October 9, the Indian Foreign Service entered the 75th year of its existence. A
By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 25, 2020After 13 months of incarceration, Dr Farooq Abdullah, MP and several times chief
By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 11, 2020Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad (The Indian Express, September 10) has
By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 27, 2020I suspect that if someone were to take a poll of editors, TV anchors, columnists and
By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 13, 2020Swapan Dasgupta’s claim in a newspaper column that the Ram Mandir “links antiquity
By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 30, 2020