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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Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar speaks in the Rajya Sabha.
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Mani Shankar Aiyar
Jitender Gupta
In Search of The Holy
The truly hallowed places in our world are all off the map. In equal parts elegiac for the lost shrines of faith and entreaty for their rediscovering, In G...
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.
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.
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.
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.
In this magisterial account, Jaffrelot privileges thematology over chronology to examine Pakistan’s maladies, its resilience and the roots of its conflicted nationhood.
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.
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.
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.
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.