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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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Kashmir, Kashmiris need Delhi’s trust

Self-respect, dignity, and the preservation of identity, require self-rule

By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 27, 2024

Our government neither applauds nor boos. It just steps aside

After Modi's arrival, nonalignment is now neutrality

By Mani Shankar Aiyar October 13, 2024

How Modi learnt to love the bomb

Narendra Modi is the first Indian prime minister ever to not be on record on nuclear disarmament

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 29, 2024

Honest peace broker (Nehru) vs master of hugs (Modi)

Modi has wrecked our relationships in the neighbourhood

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 15, 2024

Lesson from Bangladesh

Modi, like Hasina, could become history

By Mani Shankar Aiyar September 01, 2024

NITI Aayog not transforming India

Modi aims at attaining Viksit Bharat 2047 through a clutch of oligopolists

By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 18, 2024

The ugly Indian in Nepal

Don't forget that Nepali sovereignty deserves respect

By Mani Shankar Aiyar August 04, 2024

Are the Brits racist or are we?

It should shame us that Modi’s council of ministers has no Muslim

By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 21, 2024

Modi's chutzpah is his nemesis

He has no intention to loosen his iron grip on the running of the house

By Mani Shankar Aiyar July 07, 2024

Will Modi 3.0 run its full term?

Mani Shankar Aiyar says Modi is no instrument of divinity as he imagines

By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 23, 2024

Why BJP is not contesting in Kashmir

'The BJP has turned J&K into an open-air prison'

By Mani Shankar Aiyar June 09, 2024

Modi divides and rules

The PM is attempting build his majority by forcing a Hindu-Muslim divide

By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 26, 2024

Modi's Muslim love-hate: Hugs and kisses for sultans, contempt for ordinary folks

It's not Islam or Muslim Ummah to which BJP objects; it is just to them being here

By Mani Shankar Aiyar May 12, 2024

BJP can’t scale Dravidian wall

There is pent-up anger at other forms of BJP imposition

By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 28, 2024

Inequality in today’s India

It was not for Adani and Ambani and the “suit-boot” gang that we won our freedom

By Mani Shankar Aiyar April 14, 2024
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