Mani Shankar Aiyar – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: The Ambedkar-Congress Relationship

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 18, 2016

To limit the Ambedkar-Gandhi, or, more broadly, the Ambedkar-Congress relationship, to a simple binary of mutual dislike is to miss the democratic dialectic that enabled us to become a democracy at the dawn of Independence and to sustain that democracy over seven decades of fierce political disputation.

Opinion: How Modi Has Helped Gogoi Fight Anti-Incumbency

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday April 12, 2016

The BJP have been busy denigrating Gogoi's achievements but cannot deny Gogoi having taken laggard Assam's growth rate above the all-India average.

Opinion: Once Again, India's Banks Are The Fiefdom Of The Rich

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday April 04, 2016

Private banking knows that the growth figures being trotted out by the government are a dangerous illusion. PSBs, alas, do not have the privilege of making up their own minds. They neglect due diligence because they are obliged to echo their Masters' Voice. They have to accept, not question, the government's assessment of growth and potential.

Opinion: Well Done, Modi, For Driving Nepal Into China's Arms

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday March 28, 2016

What a disaster for 56 inches of Indian diplomacy! Instead of Nepal buckling to the pressure mounted on them by Modi and Swaraj, "paradoxically, the blockade has brought Nepal and China even closer".

Opinion: My Memories As An Indian MP

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 22, 2016

It has been a tumultuous 25 years, with many ups and downs, many unexpected twists and turns, many gifts of Destiny and some cruel blows of Fate.

Opinion: Pak NSA's Call To India About Terrorists Offers Some Hope

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Wednesday March 16, 2016

Quiet diplomacy by the sherpas, not meretricious grandstanding by Prime Ministers, is what might bring modest but workable results.

Opinion: At Aligarh Muslim University, "A Matter Of Life And Death"

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday March 07, 2016

Is it possible for a University that has "Muslim" as a middle name - as in Aligarh Muslim University - to not be a minority institution?

Opinion: Budget 2016 Counts On Prayers, Not Policy - By Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday March 01, 2016

Prayer rather policy has thus overtaken the Modi government.

Opinion: The Great Indian Bank Trick, Blessed By The Government

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Wednesday February 24, 2016

Bank credit, which was rising at an annual average of 30 per cent during the halcyon years 2004-07, has now shrunk to under ten percent during Modi's 'acche din'.

Opinion: Modi Government Is Playing With Fire At JNU

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday February 15, 2016

If Modi thinks he can drive the JNU students into a "dumb anguish of terror", he is wholly mistaken.

Opinion: What Jaitley Is Trying To Teach Modi

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday February 09, 2016

The economy under Modi is staggering because of falling rural demand and joblessness in the manufacturing sector. Both factors can be combatted if MNREGA is strengthened and its deficiencies addressed.

Opinion: Modi-ji, your <i>acche din</i> are the same as <i>purane din</i>

Opinion: Modi-ji, your acche din are the same as purane din

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday February 01, 2016

How can we facilitate the transition of the Indian economy from being consumption-driven to investment-driven? Where, in other words, are our acche din - and when are they coming?

Opinion: How Fadnavis Is Emulating His Role Model, Modi

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday January 25, 2016

Nothing can more effectively take forest management back to the colonial era than Maharashtra's draft Rules. They are completely reactionary, backward-looking,anti-tribal and anti-democratic. That perhaps is why Modi's ardent acolyte, Devendra Fadnavis, clings to his Rules so avidly.

Opinion: How Modi Must Ring-Fence Talks With Pakistan

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday January 18, 2016

What the Foreign Secretaries should be doing, whenever it is that they meet, is to kick-start talks about rendering the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue uninterruptible - while Pakistan overtly pursues the terror groups who operate from its soil.

Opinion: Modi's Dilemma and BJP's Confusion

Mani Shankar Aiyar | Monday January 11, 2016

Seven years on, Mumbai remains in a tangle in Pakistan's judicial jungle. I am willing to place a small bet that seven years from now, Pathankot will remain in a similar tangle.

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