Mani Shankar Aiyar – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: Absurd to Depend on China's Slowdown to Celebrate India's Growth

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday June 08, 2015

What's with our economy? A year after Modi, says a knowledgeable foreign observer, the "Modi aura" is gone.

Opinion: Be Warned. Today Greenpeace, Tomorrow You

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday June 02, 2015

Thwarted in his efforts to undermine the basic functioning of our democracy in the political and administrative sphere, Modi is now probing the Achilles heel of our democracy

Opinion: The A-Z of 'Acche Din'

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday May 25, 2015

Mani Shankar Aiyar's report card on the Modi government completing one year in power.

Opinion: Modi Got $22 Billion in Deals From China. Pak Got 46 Billion.

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday May 18, 2015

Narendra Modi's visit to China has concluded with no more than platitudes, says Mani Shankar Aiyar.

Opinion: Modi's Expensive Penchant for Made-In-Videsh

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday May 11, 2015

Is even one Rafale screw going to be manufactured in India?

Opinion: For Farmers, Rahul Walks in Rajiv's Footsteps

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Thursday April 30, 2015

As photographs and news items fill the newspapers of Rahul Gandhi's rail journeys and walking tours of states afflicted worst by farmers' distress and his championing of the cause of farmers in the Lok Sabha, my mind races back to 1987, a comparable year of natural calamity that had the whole country reeling in agrarian crisis.

Opinion: What a Farmer Named Gajendra Singh Has Exposed

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 27, 2015

The Gajendra Singh misadventure at the AAP rally might have been a deliberate suicide or a publicity stunt gone wrong.

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi Returns With Recharged Batteries

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 20, 2015

I have just returned from the Kisan-Khet Mazdoor rally. What a smooth and seamless return it has been. There was no sense of disconnect between the departure of Rahul some 60 days ago and his return now.

Opinion: BJP's Moves to Destroy Kashmiriyat

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 13, 2015

The worst of a coalition of opposites, such as we have in Jammu & Kashmir, is that to keep the alliance going, the partners indulge in what can only be described as "competitive communalism".

Opinion: Modi's Lemming Moment is Here

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 06, 2015

There is an enduring myth about the lemming, a rodent which inhabits the Arctic region, that they are prone to mass migration towards the steep cliffs of the Norwegian coast and, following their leader, topple over, one after the other, into the raging sea below. Much like the BJP over the Land Acquisition ordinance.

Opinion: Vajpayee, The Best Congressman We Never Had?

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Friday March 27, 2015

Might Atal Behari Vajpyaee be the best Congressman we never had? Given the company he has kept all his political life, he remains amazingly untainted by the vices of the family from which he has emerged - the Sangh Parivar.

Opinion: Why I Attended Pak Day Reception

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 24, 2015

The Prime Minister should have ensured more graceful representation at the Pakistan National Day celebration, says Mani Shankar Aiyar.

Opinion: Modi's Overtures To Israel Are Deeply Dangerous

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday March 23, 2015

An election in distant Israel would not normally warrant a column on ndtv.com. But last week's surprise victory of Benyamin Netanyahu for a fourth term as Prime Minister has such sinister implications for our domestic national identity, and our foreign and defence policy, that we must evaluate the outcome for its implications for us.

Opinion: How Afzal Guru, Alam Were Turned Into Martyrs

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 17, 2015

In the week that has seen Mahatma Gandhi's statue being unveiled beside Winston Churchill's in London's Westminster Square, the question surely arises: what do governments gain by jailing political dissidents? Certainly, in the end, Gandhi, the convict, won and Churchill, the jailer, lost.

Opinion: BJP Pushing Economy Towards Disaster

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 10, 2015

The BJP is presiding over an economy drifting slowly but surely to disaster, says Mani Shankar Aiyar.

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