Mani Shankar Aiyar – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: Ram Madhav Gives the Game Away

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday September 22, 2015

What is this ideology that all BJP leaders of any importance must subscribe to in order to remain members in good standing of the RSS, not forgetting that Modi himself is an RSS pracharak, and is bound by the "discipline" which the RSS stipulates as an overwhelming condition of membership?

Opinion: Modi Quotes Gandhi Wrongly, Yet Again

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday September 14, 2015

Even a casual glance through the writings and speeches of the Father of the Nation would have shown Modi that Gandhiji's view was "crores of Indians know Hindustani - they do not know any other language. And if you want to steal into their hearts, Hindustani is the only language open to you"

Opinion: Why Modi's Reforms Lie in Tatters

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday September 07, 2015

Modi's proposed changes to labour laws led to such a furious reaction in organized labour circles, including the BJP's own trade union wing, that the labour reforms he sought in mid-2014 soon after becoming PM had to be postponed to bring the Sangh Parivar on board.

Opinion: Why Hardik Patel Has Turned On Modi

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday August 31, 2015

Why should the Patels turn out in lakhs - eighteen lakh at last count - to protest reservations from which they are excluded?

Opinion: With Pakistan, Modi's Big Own-Goal

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday August 25, 2015

By rendering the India-Pakistan dialogue hostage to the Hurriyat, Modi has raised the Hurriyat to the status of arbiter of the sub-continents destiny. What a silly own-goal to score.

Opinion: Fed Up of <i>Akhara</i> of Parliament? TV is to Blame

Opinion: Fed Up of Akhara of Parliament? TV is to Blame

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday August 17, 2015

Our people actually want to see Parliament as an akhara and reward the disruptionists with re-election.

Opinion: Must Bihar Pay For Nitish Not Dining With Modi?

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday August 10, 2015

Modi's version of "cooperative federalism" is depriving Bihar of about one lakh crore rupees a year.

Opinion: How Congress Will Block GST

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday August 04, 2015

Jaitley's merry band have decided that the GST Council will itself settle all disputes - which is a blatant transgression of the elementary judicial principal that a party to a dispute cannot be a judge in its own cause.

Opinion: Why Yakub Memon Must Not Hang

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday July 28, 2015

Our plea is for "mercy to season justice".

Opinion: Modi Tried to Solve Pak Alone. And Made a Mess.

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday July 20, 2015

What has happened post-Ufa is the consequence of thinking he can do with no institutional back-up.

Opinion: Pak Talks Need More Than Modi's Event Management

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday July 13, 2015

All the signs point to Ufa as a step forward but hardly a breakthrough.

Opinion: Modi Must Release Caste Survey Findings

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday July 06, 2015

The principal limitation in defining poverty in terms of a single line, as those above it being APL and those below it being BPL, is that there was no gradation from destitution to deprivation to poverty to vulnerability.

Opinion: Smriti Irani's College Degree is Not the Problem

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday June 29, 2015

One really can't blame Smriti Irani, our Education Minister, for the mess in education - since she is really not much educated herself.

Opinion: Modi's Worldwide <i>Nautanki</i> of Yoga

Opinion: Modi's Worldwide Nautanki of Yoga

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday June 22, 2015

How appropriate that a minister with a stain on her reputation as big as the bindi on her forehead should have been sent to New York to represent India at the International Yoga Day celebrations. What should have been a day of pride for all of us has instead been turned into a Hindutva tamasha by our Events Manager to beat all Events Managers.

Opinion: What Modi Has Not Recognised About Pakistan

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday June 15, 2015

The Chinese have dismissed this childishness with the contempt it deserves. Pakistan has reacted with outrage.

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