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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

​ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, daughter, granddaughter, great granddaughter of the prime ministers of India. Her mother, Sonia, is of Italian origin, could also become the prime minister, however, her conscience didn’t permit it. Sonia, however, couldn’t resist the trappings of power, she, for all practical purposes, ruled by proxy, with Manmohan Singh as the prime minister. Sonia headed an extra constitutional body, tailor made for her, the National Advisory Council (NAS), its ad