Shankar Acharya
Attempt to conduct Ram temple ceremony to hurt PM Modi: Mani Shankar Aiyar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempt to personally conduct the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya will prove costly given the disapproval of the four shankaracharyas who have refused to attend the ceremony, said Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar. The former Union minister said it is beginning to show who is the "real Hindu" -- one who knows the difference between 'Hinduism' and 'Hindutva'. "Modi's attempt at being personally present and personally conducting the religious ceremony has received such strong disapproval from the four accepted seers of the Hindu religion, who constitute what you may call the pontiffs of the Hindu religion, that it is all going to turn back on him. It will bite back," said Aiyar at the ongoing seventh edition of the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) on Friday. Uttarakhand's Jyotir Mutt head Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati has said that none of the four shankaracharyas will attend the event in Ayodhya as the consecration ceremony will take
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Economist Shankar Acharya appointed chancellor of AP Central University
Acharya has been India's longest-serving chief economic advisor, advising three finance ministers over eight years. He has been a columnist for Business Standard for over twenty years
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Shankar Acharya: Fiscal deficits - a short history
India's fiscal deficit trends are a bit like an alcoholic trying, unsuccessfully, to reform
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