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​ One can argue, Anil Antony made a politically disastrous decision by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). For his father, A K Antony, is one of the tallest Congress leaders, has served as the chief minister of Kerala and held senior cabinet positions in the union government. And recently the Congress party did very well in the Kerala assembly elections and came back to power with a thumping majority; had Anil stayed on in his father’s party would have reaped political

Mani Shankar Aiyar is a public intellectual with a gift of the gab. A Stephanian, whose father died when he was young, a student​; he did well ​for himself and joined the coveted Indian Foreign Service in 1963, after pursuing a degree in Oxford where he had a brief interaction with Rajiv Gandhi. Twenty-two years later, he joined Rajiv’s prime minister office as a joint secretary and went on to become one of the most powerful bureaucrats. Rajiv undid his monumental mandate, an