India, April 20 -- Mani Shankar Aiyar, the author of The Rajiv I Knew and I overlapped in Rajiv Gandhi's PMO for about 18 months. But I have known him for much longer. I have no hesitation in saying that he is a person of absolute intellectual integrity. He does not say or write anything that he does not believe in. But he can be gratuitously offensive at times, as for example, when he describes a colleague as "pompous". Having been three years senior to Rajiv Gandhi (RG) at Doon School, Aiyar, to many of his colleagues in the PMO, appeared to be talking to the PM in a familiar way. None of us others ever did so. My interaction with RG was strictly limited to foreign- policy issues. The PM once told me that he would like to surround himself with young persons, and promptly added that I did not qualify to be in that group!...