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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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Why are we hindutvising foreign policy?

Should we not give the interim authorities in Dhaka the opportunity to settle down?

By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 22, 2024

Detaching morality from economic policy

Adani imbroglio symptomatic of dismantling ethics from economic policy

By Mani Shankar Aiyar December 08, 2024

Olympics, 2036: Host and ghosts

Our sports priorities are wholly misplaced

By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 24, 2024

What is our long-term perspective on India-China relations?

The question was, in fact, raised and settled back in 1950

By Mani Shankar Aiyar November 10, 2024

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
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