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As Columnist for the "Indian Express" between 1996-2004, Panchayati Raj minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, did what he does best, churn out candid columns on subjects close to his heart. His collection of offerings published on the edit page of India’s feisty newspaper, now compiled into a book, provides a ringside view of what happened in the country in that turbulent decade, where new political and economic mores were discarding well known Nehruvian positions on secularism, socialism, foreign affairs and democracy, opting instead for a global economic and political order, the quest for which continues.
Unlike most politicians, Aiyar combines the knowledge of someone who understands politics through the government and then later, through mass politics. Politics to him did not come the way it does to the average Indian politician: either through the dusty corridors of university life or through inheritance. It came through close association with Rajiv Gandhi, who after the Congress’s largest-ever electoral victory in 1984, was looking for bright, young men to enter politics and to break the stranglehold of party satraps. Among those handpicked was Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Aiyar – a dyed-in-the-wool Nehruvian – makes no bones about his commitment for Rajiv Gandhi, as "boss, mentor and friend", and the ultimate arbiter of India’s neo-Panchayat policy. Rajiv, according to him, once remarked that while we were the world’s largest democracy, we were also the least representative, a mere 5000 legislators representing the interests of a billion people. Rajiv “was deeply persuaded that if democracy in Delhi and state capitals had made India the world’s largest democracy, it was largely because there was constitutional sanction for such democracy; and if it had failed to develop at the grassroots, this was primarily because Panchayati Raj found no mention in the Constitution as originally framed, apart from a passing mention in the Directive Principles of State Policy. He therefore set about according constitutional status, sanctity and sanction to Panchayati Raj.’’
The results? According to the author, the devolution of power through panchayats has ushered in a social revolution without precedent. With 250,000 elected institutions of local self-government, 3.2 million elected members, 1.2 million elected women members (there are more elected women in India than the rest of the world put together), India is merely reaffirming that democracy flourishes on her soil like nowhere else.
Aiyar’s intellectual bandwidth is impressive. From peoples’ empowerment to the Union budget; India’s change in its foreign affairs asymmetry to the shenanigans of the Hindutva brigade; the perils of being L K Advani, Narendra Modi and Arun Shourie, all are but a day’s work for a man as erudite as him. “For the proponents of Hindutva, Hinduism is authentic, the rest an alien graft…An Indian culture is the Hindu culture, the persistence of other cultures being a tribute to the tolerance of the Hindu.”
If the scholarship is redoubtable, the language is typically Aiyar: his turn of phrase, vitriol, wit, the acidity and sometimes Aristotelian sweeps, are all from the hip and in-the-face. A number of heavyweight politicians who are now Aiyar’s esteemed colleagues in the UPA Cabinet, have been put to the sword. ’’
Virtually, no topic has been left untouched. What is missing, perhaps, is a contemporary account of what transpired behind the opening up of the Babri Masjid lock by Rajiv Gandhi. It certainly opened the locks for the BJP to march into South Block.
Ranjit Bhushan
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`A Time of Transition: Rajiv Gandhi to the 21st Century’ (Published by Penguin/Viking)
As Columnist for the "Indian Express" between 1996-2004, Panchayati Raj minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, did what he does best, churn out candid columns on subjects close to his heart. His collection of offerings published on the edit page of India’s feisty newspaper, now compiled into a book, provides a ringside view of what happened in the country in that turbulent decade, where new political and economic mores were discarding well known Nehruvian positions on secularism, socialism, foreign affairs and democracy, opting instead for a global economic and political order, the quest for which continues.Unlike most politicians, Aiyar combines the knowledge of someone who understands politics through the government and then later, through mass politics. Politics to him did not come the way it does to the average Indian politician: either through the dusty corridors of university life or through inheritance. It came through close association with Rajiv Gandhi, who after the Congress’s largest-ever electoral victory in 1984, was looking for bright, young men to enter politics and to break the stranglehold of party satraps. Among those handpicked was Mani Shankar Aiyar.
Aiyar – a dyed-in-the-wool Nehruvian – makes no bones about his commitment for Rajiv Gandhi, as "boss, mentor and friend", and the ultimate arbiter of India’s neo-Panchayat policy. Rajiv, according to him, once remarked that while we were the world’s largest democracy, we were also the least representative, a mere 5000 legislators representing the interests of a billion people. Rajiv “was deeply persuaded that if democracy in Delhi and state capitals had made India the world’s largest democracy, it was largely because there was constitutional sanction for such democracy; and if it had failed to develop at the grassroots, this was primarily because Panchayati Raj found no mention in the Constitution as originally framed, apart from a passing mention in the Directive Principles of State Policy. He therefore set about according constitutional status, sanctity and sanction to Panchayati Raj.’’
The results? According to the author, the devolution of power through panchayats has ushered in a social revolution without precedent. With 250,000 elected institutions of local self-government, 3.2 million elected members, 1.2 million elected women members (there are more elected women in India than the rest of the world put together), India is merely reaffirming that democracy flourishes on her soil like nowhere else.
Aiyar’s intellectual bandwidth is impressive. From peoples’ empowerment to the Union budget; India’s change in its foreign affairs asymmetry to the shenanigans of the Hindutva brigade; the perils of being L K Advani, Narendra Modi and Arun Shourie, all are but a day’s work for a man as erudite as him. “For the proponents of Hindutva, Hinduism is authentic, the rest an alien graft…An Indian culture is the Hindu culture, the persistence of other cultures being a tribute to the tolerance of the Hindu.”
If the scholarship is redoubtable, the language is typically Aiyar: his turn of phrase, vitriol, wit, the acidity and sometimes Aristotelian sweeps, are all from the hip and in-the-face. A number of heavyweight politicians who are now Aiyar’s esteemed colleagues in the UPA Cabinet, have been put to the sword. ’’
Virtually, no topic has been left untouched. What is missing, perhaps, is a contemporary account of what transpired behind the opening up of the Babri Masjid lock by Rajiv Gandhi. It certainly opened the locks for the BJP to march into South Block.
Ranjit Bhushan
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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