Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar served 26 years in the Indian Foreign Service, including a deputation to the Office of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Thrice elected to the Lower House of Parliament from Tamil Nadu, he also served a six-year term in the Upper House. In 2006, he was conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award. A cabinet minister from 2004 to 2009, he held various portfolios. He has published nine books to date, including his latest, Memoirs of a Maverick. The companion volume to his memoirs, The Rajiv I Knew, was published and launched in January 2024.

Session

02 Feb | 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Venue - DURBAR HALL

44. The Memoirists

Mani Shankar Aiyar and Gurcharan Das in conversation with Mandira Nayar

More Speakers

Aadil Raza Mansoori

Aarathi Prasad

Aasha Kapur Mehta

Abhay K.

Abhishek K. Choudhary

Abhishek Singh

Aditi Maheshwari Goyal

Ajai Chowdhry

Ajay Bisaria

Ajay Jadeja

Ajay Singha

Albert Read

Alex Ellis

Alka Pande

Amal Allana

Amia Srinivasan

Amish

Amit Kapoor

Amit Sen

Amita V. Joseph

Amitabh Kant

Amod K. Kanth

Amrish Kumar

Amrit Mathur

Amrita Tripathi

Anand Neelakantan

Andrew Quintman

Anil Aneja

Anirudh Kanisetti

Anirudh Suri

Anish Gawande

Anisha Lalvani

Anitah Aujayeb

Anjan Sundaram

Anjum Hasan

Anna Katharina Fröhlich

Antony Loewenstein

Anubhav Nath

Anupama Manral

Anuradha Sarma Pujari

Aparna Chandra

Arefa Tehsin

Arun Kumar

Arun Maheshwari

Arun Maira

Arunabha Ghosh

Arunava Sinha

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arvind Kalia

Asad Lalljee