Mani Shankar Aiyar – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: At 34, Kim Jong Un Defeats Trump, Twice His Age

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Wednesday June 13, 2018

When on the lawns of the White House, Narendra Modi suddenly moved to gather to his 56-inch chest a startled and somewhat embarrassed Donald Trump, Modi seems by some process of osmosis to have passed on his DNA to Trump as what we have witnessed in Singapore is the ultimate Event Management test - the focus being entirely on the optics, to the neglect of the substanc...

Opinion: Mani Shankar Aiyar On Pranab Mukherjee's Speech To RSS

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Friday June 08, 2018

I must confess to having felt queasy when I heard that our former Rashtrapati, Pranab Mukherjee, a man I much admire, was likely to accept an invitation from the RSS Sarsanghchalak, Mohan Bhagwat, to attend the convocation of Sangh Parivaar volunteers trained for three years in becoming pracharaks.

Opinion: Dulat And Durrani Don't Break Their Omerta

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday June 04, 2018

Does intelligence gathering lead to intelligent decision-making?

Opinion: Modi's Blatant Attempt To Communalize A State - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday May 28, 2018

While the nation's attention has been riveted on the Modi-Shah shenanigans in Karnataka, inadequate attention has been paid to the excesses they are committing at the other end of the country in the North-East where a massive public agitation has been spurred by the proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act of 1955 aimed, in effect, at providing non-Muslims immigrants...

Opinion: Karnataka Today, Kairana Next Week - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Wednesday May 23, 2018

A humble (but not humbled) Congress, in the congenial company of a broad alliance holding aloft the Idea of India, will, a year from now, stop the perverse rise of an alternative Idea of India that we have witnessed since 2014, notwithstanding the obvious truth that well over two-thirds of all Indians have never wished to have anything to do with that alternative.

Opinion: Dear Amit-<i>Bhai</i>, About Your Tweet On Me - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Opinion: Dear Amit-Bhai, About Your Tweet On Me - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Thursday May 10, 2018

Dear Janab Amit Shah-ji, To go by your tweet on 5/6 May while I was in Pakistan, you were apparently scandalized that on Pakistani soil last week, I referred to Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the Quaid-e-Azam (Great Leader). That is a measure not of my treachery but of the ignorance or deliberate distortion of the facts of history that so characterize you and the Sangh Pariva...

Opinion: At Wuhan Flop Show, Modi Put In His Place By Xi - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday May 01, 2018

Now, as "the tumult and the shouting dies" over the Wuhan summit between Modi and Xi, two major questions remain: first, why were India-China relations in need of a "reset" after some 10 meetings between Modi and Xi over the last four years? Second, what have been the tangible outcomes, if any, of Wuhan? The answer to the first question -- why was a "reset" necessary?...

Opinion: Modi's Showmanship High, Statesmanship Low

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Friday April 27, 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at Mandla in Madhya Pradesh on National Panchayat Raj Day, 24 April 2018, to mark the Silver Jubilee of constitutional Panchayati Raj in the country was telling testimony to his total ignorance of why the constitution was amended and what the outcome has been over the last 25 years.

Opinion: Modi's Approach To Israel In Stark Contrast To What Gandhi Sought

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 16, 2018

After Independence, all the way from Jawaharlal Nehru through Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi, India and the Nonaligned Movement had stood four-square behind Palestine because the Palestinian cause was an anti-Imperialist and anti-colonial cause.

Opinion: Modi Second To None In Fake News

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Thursday April 05, 2018

I yield to none in acknowledging Narendra Modi's expertise in fake news. For surely no one in our contemporary politics has propagated and profited more from fake news than Modi has. Three incidents involving me would help me rest my case.

Opinion: Sadly, Ram Guha Wants Muslims To Be More Like Him

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 27, 2018

For the past week or so, The Indian Express has been running a fascinating debate on the place of Muslims in our polity and society. Much as I have been tempted to leap into the debate at the Express, I thought I would make my contribution to the much larger audience available at ndtv.com. So, here goes.

Opinion: Siddaramaiah's Outstanding Facebook Post On Modi Vs Federalism

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 20, 2018

The problem essentially is that Modi, with Jaitley in tow, mixed up "cooperative federalism" with Centre-State revenue-sharing patterns.

Opinion: Siddaramaiah's Sound Strategy To Defeat BJP In Karnataka

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 13, 2018

Instead of letting matters take their quasi-judicial course, Amit Shah started playing political games to strengthen the electoral standing of his party in the forthcoming elections in which the outcome in the state as a whole is going to be substantially determined by who wins the argument over the Mahadayi.

Opinion: Modi Government Uses Army To Speak On Its Behalf

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Sunday March 04, 2018

There is nothing to indicate that the civilian government is enforcing restraint on its Chief of Army Staff.

Opinion: Modi's Actions Leave A Crucial Ally Very Upset, Advantage China

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Thursday February 22, 2018

Now the sun has set on all Empires. It is time India and China came together again. Let Nepal be the link.

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