Mani Shankar Aiyar

In this file photo, Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, Fomer Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and Senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani during a seminar on 'Center fo...

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Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Congress Leaders Mani Shankar Aiyar and Jairam Ramesh during the launches his book "Changing India', a five-volume book, in New Delhi.

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A civil society group headed by senior congress leader Mani Shanker Aiyar (3rd from R) during a meeting with Hurriyat Conference chairman of moderate faction Mirwiaz Molvi Umar Far...

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Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit, Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani and congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and other le...

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Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar with Tamil Nadu farmers who are protesting at Jantar Mandar, in New Delhi.

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Congress leaders at the AICC headquarters on the occasion of the party's 132nd Foundation Day, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi.

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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi with Mani Shankar Aiyar and P Chidambaram during the distribution of especially designed motorised vehicles to physically challenged people as ...

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Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, Former DG Police, Pakistan, Muhammad Shoaib Suddle, Senior Program Officer, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Devyani Srivastava, Form...

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Congress party lawmaker Mani Shankar Aiyar sits with a black flag as he participates in a protest with other Congress lawmakers in the parliament premises, in New Delhi.

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Former Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, Fomer Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri and Senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani during a seminar on 'Center for Peace & Progress' ...

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Congress leader Mani Shanker Aiyer greets Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq during the Eid Milan at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.

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Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar with Pakistani High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit and his wife during a reception on Pakistan National Day at Pakistan High Commission in New Del...

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The eminences Jury members Mukul Kesavan, Nilanjana Roy, Sunil Sethi, Mani Shankar Aiyar, David Davidar and moderator Satish Padmanabhan at the Villa Medici, Taj Mahal Hotel, Mansi...
A delegation of Pakistani MPs during a visit to Parliament house in New Delhi.

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K. Natwar Singh with Mani Shankar Aiyar

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Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar speaks in the Rajya Sabha.

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Magazine

Our Talking Heads

A revelatory account shows how, in the years after Independence, India and Pakistan tried to thrash out all outstanding issues—from minorities and refugees, Indus waters and a possible guard against conflict

Jul 09, 2020

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
Go Tell It In A Bazaar

Panda’s transient, on-the-spur columns might embarrass in hindsight but he richly earns his encomiums for his profound essays on a gamut of topics

Jan 16, 2019

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
Boston Diary

This week, we bring to you a diary from Boston written by Mani Shankar Aiyar.

Jul 25, 2018

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
Hot Poll Head Snubs

Hostile speeches and abusive remarks, it is now pervasively believed, can make or break electoral verdicts. Whenever rival politicians indulge in a war of words, the public avidly tallies who ‘won’ or ‘lost’ each round.

Dec 14, 2017

| Pragya Singh
Boatmen Wait On The Banks Of The Indus

Gracious in person, Abdul Sattar’s bilious pen spills an anti-India screed—a lesson in ‘national identity’. Yet it shows how a path of reconciliation can be cut through the shrillness.

Sep 07, 2017

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
One Of Terpsichore’s Own

Sonal Mansingh’s metier enveloped her soul. At the forefront of a renaissance in performing arts post 1947, this is a celebration of a life danced to the full.

May 18, 2017

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
A Passion Rose Crushed Under A Victoria

Jinnah’s fateful marriage to the vivacious Ruttie, tangled with the turmoil of nationalist politics—is a story of gripping pathos. It is told brilliantly here.

Mar 02, 2017

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
If The Architect Came By In 2016

What would Nehru see if he were to revisit India today? He’d be happy to see his basic blueprint in action. (So what if the details mess it up.)

Oct 25, 2016

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
In A Pendulous State

In this magisterial account, Jaffrelot privileges thematology over chronology to examine Pakistan’s maladies, its resilience and the roots of its conflicted nationhood.

Aug 17, 2015

| Mani Shankar Aiyar
August Motto: Only Disconnect

For a fast, frothy record of events, Hiro’s book passes muster. Yet, premised on a ‘primeval’ Hindu-Muslim hatred, his is often an unresearched, prejudiced waffle.

Jun 01, 2015

| Mani Shankar Aiyar

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"Congress Can Have A Non-Gandhi President, But...": Mani Shankar Aiyyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar said Rahul Gandhi has given about a month to the party to find a replacement and there have been confabulations within the Congress over the issue with the feeling in the party overwhelmingly in favour of Rahul staying on.

Jun 23, 2019

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Mani Shankar Aiyar Abuses Reporters, Says, 'PM Modi Is A Coward'

Mani Shankar Aiyar lost his temper at tv reporters who met him at the Punjab government guest house in Shimla and questioned him over an article he wrote, recalling a slur he directed at PM Modi in 2017.

May 15, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Javadekar Demands Gehlot’s Resignation Over Alwar Gang Rape Case

HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar alleged that BSP chief Mayawati supports the Congress government in Rajasthan, and remained ‘quiet’ on atrocities against people belonging to SC and ST communities.

May 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Congress Condemns Mani Shankar Aiyar's Comments On Modi

The party also accused the prime minister of lowering the political discourse by using ‘downright insulting’ and ‘abusive language’ against his political opponents

May 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
Anything I Say Is Always Misused, People Hate Me For Speaking The Truth, Says Mani Shankar Aiyar

In an article titled 'Modi's ouster on 23 May will be India's fitting reply to the most foul-mouthed PM', Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar slammed the Prime Minister over a ‘dirty election campaign.’

May 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Modi's Ouster On May 23 Would Be A Fitting End To The Most Foul-mouthed PM': Mani Shankar Aiyar

“Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?” writes Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar.

May 14, 2019

| Outlook Web Bureau
PDP, NC, Congress Forming Alliance On Pakistan’s Direction: BJP

BJP senior leader Kavinder Gupta remarks came minutes after senior PDP leader and former Minister for Finance Altaf Bukhari said talks were on between the three parties.

Nov 21, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
K Palaniswami Leading Govt Of Corruption, Commission And Collection: M K Stalin

The Madras High Court last week upheld the disqualification of 18 ruling party MLAs, loyal to AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran, and cleared the decks for the bypolls in the constituencies.

Oct 29, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Never Thought CM Who Compared Muslims With Puppy Can Be PM: Mani Shankar Aiyar

Aiyar was suspended from the primary membership of the Congress party in December 2017 after his "neech" remark for Prime Minister Modi courted a major controversy.

Aug 11, 2018

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Does Dropping Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Daughter From Delhi Event Prove The Legendary Poet Was Right About Our Independence?

May 14, 2018

| Satata Karmakar