Lost sheen of the IFS
On October 9, the Indian Foreign Service entered the 75th year of its existence. A
By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 25, 2020
Columns
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Anita Pratap
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Anuja Chauhan
- Shobhaa De
- Navtej Sarna
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- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Barkha Dutt
- Shashi Tharoor
- Bibek Debroy
- 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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Whither parliamentary democracy?
After 13 months of incarceration, Dr Farooq Abdullah, MP and several times chief
By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 11, 2020
Shooting from the lip
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad (The Indian Express, September 10) has
By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 27, 2020
The Congress’s unique adhesive
I suspect that if someone were to take a poll of editors, TV anchors, columnists and
By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 13, 2020
Can violence be sacred, democratic?
Swapan Dasgupta’s claim in a newspaper column that the Ram Mandir “links antiquity
By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 30, 2020
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
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