With the Kerala assembly elections round the corner, Aiyar lit the spark Sunday by heaping praise on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the Left Front.
India’s democratic drift was analysed threadbare at the launch of The Dismantling of India’s Democracy: 1947-2025 by senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha.
Perhaps no one else in India equals the missionary courage and zeal with which Aiyar, in this book in particular and in general discourse, urges improved relations between Pakistan and India.
‘A Maverick in Politics: 1991-2004’, is the second of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s memoirs. He draws a colourful portrait of his life in politics and those around him including Jayalalithaa, Sonia Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and more.
Veteran Congressman Aiyar, who the party suspended in 2017 over comments on Modi, claims in new autobiography that his political life came undone due to the Gandhi family's decisions.
Congress has distanced itself from his remarks with senior leader Jairam Ramesh saying his colleague had apologised 'unreservedly' for using the term 'mistakenly'.
Congress veteran Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remark from an April interview that India should ‘respect’ Pakistan because it has an atom bomb drew fire Friday, leaving the party ducking for cover.
The launch of former Law Minister Ashwani Kumar's book 'Democracy in Retreat' was attended by Supreme Court judge AK Sikri, former diplomat Pavan Varma, and journalist Neerja Chowdhury.
President of Jangpura Extension RWA says awaiting Congressman Mani Shankar Aiyar & daughter Suranya's response to letter sent to them regarding her ‘rant’ on Ram Mandir consecration.
When it came to economic reforms, Rao was half a lion, but when it came to Babri Masjid, he was half a man, said Aiyar at the launch of his book The Rajiv I Knew.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
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