“aiyar”

India and China share a 3500-km border and have interacted with each other for over 2000 years. It is remarkable then that their people know so little of each other: what they think, how they live, their language, customs and philosophy.Or even their cuisine. Pallavi Aiyar was very much the av... More

Mani Shankar Aiyar has elevated the art of lampooning (on the basis of hard-core facts and distilled data) to extraordinarlily dizzy heights, which very few writers can aspire to conquer. This volume, Knickerwallahs, Silly-Billies & Other Curious Creatures, presents a pithy and thought-provoking... More

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT - AND ADVOCACY PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND ADVOCACY being a series of lectures delivered to apprentices-at-law BY K. V. KRISHNASWAMI AIYAR Advocate, High Court, Madras WITH FOREWORDS BY SIR MAURICE GWYER Formerly Chief Justice of India AND SIR LIONEL LEACH Chief Justice, High Court... More

“Through (or in the light of) the Itihasas and Puranas, the Vedas have to be explained.” It is to this book that can be attributed the distinction of singularly and most compellingly proving the scientific basis of the Puranas, probably the most condemned of the Smûâis, as they seem to contai... More

In Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist, Mani Shankar Aiyar, crusader for a secular credo, calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of our nationhood. In doing so, he revisits every dimension of our secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by comm... More

Mani Shankar Aiyar looks back to the changes that have taken place during the ‘Time of Transition’ —the two decades since Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi left office after the Lok Sabha elections of November 1989. Rajiv Gandhi was the fourth prime minister of India in four decades of i... More

On the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's Golden Jubilee birth aaniversary, the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, organised four symposia between August 1994 and May 1995. The proceedings of the symposia are here published in four volumes. They bearoral testimony, by many of the most important participant... More