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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