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'Main ullu nahi hoon': Mani Shankar stands by 'neech aadmi' jibe for...

In the run-up to 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls, Aiyar had referred Modi as 'neech aadmi', a remark that cost his party...

14 May 2019 11:47 AM IST

Congress president, senior leader Mani Shankar Aiyar

A 'non-Gandhi' can be party chief, says Mani Shankar

Rahul had offered to quit as the party chief during the May 25 meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).

24 Jun 2019 9:54 AM IST

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Non-Gandhi can be Cong chief but Gandhi family must remain active:...

The BJP's objective is to have a 'Gandhi-mukt Congress' so as to have a 'Congress-mukt Bharat', he claimed.

23 Jun 2019 6:35 PM IST

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar (Photo: PTI)

Mani Shankar Aiyar likens Kashmir to Palestine, stirs storm

Wish you all on Id, specially my brothers and sisters in Kashmir who are under massive restrictions and troubles,â€ Ms...

13 Aug 2019 5:54 AM IST

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehru's vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru's vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane...

26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM IST

It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly...

20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

In addition to such symbols of fraternity as staying frequently with Muslim hosts, such as Dr. Ansari, and his companions from Khilafat days, the Maulana brothers Mohammed and Shaukat Ali and acting as a pallbearer when their remarkable mother, Bi-Amma, dies,he spent his last night before he famously picked up a fistful of salt mixed with mud to defy the colonial regime at the Dandi home of Shiraz Abdullahbhai. By Arrangement

History & realpolitik, from the mouth of the Mahatma

The enduring theme of the Mahatma's concerns is the imperative of Hindu-Muslim unity

30 Dec 2023 4:31 PM IST

Cover photo of Memoirs of a Maverick: The First Fifty Years by Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Aiyar's pink curiosities very nearly cost him his...

Excerpt from Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'Memoirs of a Maverick'

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Memoirs of a Maverick: The First 50 Years (1941-1991) By Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Image DC)

Politics, Pakistan were the two fatal attractions of Aiyar's life

Do we really believe all Pakistanis are jihadis

24 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Never thought CM who compared Muslims with puppy can be PM: Mani...

Aiyar was suspended from primary membership of Congress in December 2017 after his 'neech' remark for PM Modi courted a...

11 Aug 2018 5:06 PM IST

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar (Photo: PTI)

Rahul Gandhi says I'm love and now his love Mani Shankar Aiyar is...

Rahul Gandhi revoked Mani Shankar Aiyar's suspension from Congress on Saturday on the recommendation of its central...

20 Aug 2018 11:30 AM IST

Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath said the CBI has turned into a Shakha of the RSS. (Photo: PTI)

Of Kamal Nath's temple visits & Aiyar's silence

Senior BJP leaders and workers have failed to observe the solemnity of the occasion.

26 Aug 2018 12:09 AM IST