Sep 01 2023 to Sep 01 2023 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

Of India’s civil servants, Mani Shankar Aiyar may have arguably had one of the most colourful careers. Known for his lacerating wit and many indiscretions, with a career that has seen great highs and lows, he has been a true maverick.

In this extraordinarily honest memoir, Memoirs of a Maverick, he tells the story of his first  fifty years – from his childhood at Dehradun where he was raised  by his feisty widowed mother to nearly becoming the president of the Cambridge Union, to working as a young diplomat who strengthened Indo–Pak ties by brilliantly managing India’s first consulate general in Karachi and then going on to work intimately with Rajiv Gandhi in the PMO.

In this session, he discusses with the panel, events from his personal life, about his childhood and college days, of his parents’ troubled marriage and his beloved youngest brother’s suicide, and also about his political career, about the net level of freedom in both India and Pakistan being the same, Saddam  Hussein’s government being unusually feminist with a large number of female public servants, and much more!