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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicMani Shankar Aiyar

Topic: Mani Shankar Aiyar

‘I am very much alive’, Mani Shankar Aiyar tells trolls claiming he ‘died in Balakot’

With trolls poking fun that he had been killed in the Balakot strikes, Aiyar says he has been campaigning in the south, but ‘BJP doesn’t understand Tamil’.

Why out-of-power Indian politicians are writing more and more books

As Kapil Sibal joins the list of writer-politicians, leaders such as Shashi Tharoor and Pavan Varma explain what it entails in a country like India.

10 IAS, IFS and other civil servants who made it big in politics

Chhattisgarh IAS officer O.P. Choudhary joins a long list of those who made the switch. He signed up with the BJP at CM Raman Singh’s behest.

Kerala floods: Twitterati call out national media for its ‘silence’

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30 years back, BJP took on Congress to defend Pakistan honour to another Gujarati PM

Mani Shankar Aiyar’s dinner for his friend from Cambridge, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, was uneventful by all accounts.

BJP’s vision is so blurred they can’t even bring out a proper manifesto: Hardik Patel

The young Patidar leader says BJP has no vision for Gujarat, so it came up with an eight-page booklet with no data, no agenda, calling it a manifesto.

Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘neech’ remark is hardly the game-changer BJP was looking for

The BJP intends to pin inflated analysis of the remark by Mani Shankar Aiyar and its supposed impact on election results, but overestimating its...

Mani Shankar Aiyar’s Hindi is so good we had to look up some of his words in a dictionary

Older interviews of Aiyar have him displaying his remarkable hold over both Hindi and Urdu, using words which are much more complicated than neech. 

Imran Khan can give Mani Shankar Aiyar serious competition when it comes to classism

Mani’s Hindi is excellent, and he may have a tough time convincing his critics in the BJP about his comment on Narendra Modi.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.