Mani Shankar Aiyar argues against the motion "Democracy is India's Achilles' heel" at the Intelligence Squared debate on 27th September 2011 at the Royal Geographical Society.
I again & again Salute Mani Shankar Aiyar ji. Super Duper Answers & Debate. Sohail ji.. your British Engleeesh is not enough to prove that you simply lost in front of Aiyar ji.
@rockyqw12 - We are ready to give small bribes every now and then for ease of life but only cry loud when we don't get work done after giving bribe or when we cant afford to give that bribe. Some people among us give large sum of bribe to get something that they don't deserve.
I have seen almost every IT company employee including managers submitting forged medical bills of 15k to save tax of 5k per year.
@rockyqw12- The unity that we assume today in Indians was absent when we were on the verge of getting political freedom from British. Only democracy could guarantee development of unity. Democracy is best option to dilute sub-nationalism that has potential to divide the country. We get corrupt and incompetent people elected because we as a society are corrupt.
@rockyqw12 - I agree that research by Mr french is much more than one would expect a non-Indian journalist to know and raises serious points that would be decisive for victory in other debates. However,as I understand, topic of this debate is whether Indian democracy is a weakness of republic of India that can potentially threaten its existence. And I think in absence of democracy India would have got splintered into various little segments along lines of Religion, language, caste and ethnicity.
Mani is joke.
quazarstar12 8 hours ago
Brilliant. Mani rocks.
panniize 3 days ago
respect to Mani Saheb./. beautiful.. the western mind only sees the ills of India and not its beauties.///
tarybb2009 2 weeks ago
Shail Seth is self made hypocrat
ch012 2 weeks ago
Suhel seth's cheap shots at Mani cant hide the fact that he lost badly to Mani.Kudos Mani.Nice speech and rebuttal.
ashishthakur96 2 weeks ago
This mani shanker aiyer is one a hysterical dick.....
dignifiedflirt 3 weeks ago
I again & again Salute Mani Shankar Aiyar ji. Super Duper Answers & Debate. Sohail ji.. your British Engleeesh is not enough to prove that you simply lost in front of Aiyar ji.
KLGALINA22 1 month ago
@rockyqw12 - We are ready to give small bribes every now and then for ease of life but only cry loud when we don't get work done after giving bribe or when we cant afford to give that bribe. Some people among us give large sum of bribe to get something that they don't deserve.
I have seen almost every IT company employee including managers submitting forged medical bills of 15k to save tax of 5k per year.
MrIndianAtheist 1 month ago
@rockyqw12- The unity that we assume today in Indians was absent when we were on the verge of getting political freedom from British. Only democracy could guarantee development of unity. Democracy is best option to dilute sub-nationalism that has potential to divide the country. We get corrupt and incompetent people elected because we as a society are corrupt.
MrIndianAtheist 1 month ago
@rockyqw12 - I agree that research by Mr french is much more than one would expect a non-Indian journalist to know and raises serious points that would be decisive for victory in other debates. However,as I understand, topic of this debate is whether Indian democracy is a weakness of republic of India that can potentially threaten its existence. And I think in absence of democracy India would have got splintered into various little segments along lines of Religion, language, caste and ethnicity.
MrIndianAtheist 1 month ago