“They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“six decades of Independence have wrought significant change, as exposure to British practices has faded and India’s natural boisterousness has reasserted itself. Some of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“control. The people’s character is deliberately debased, their mind is denationalized and perpetually kept in ignorance and fed with stories of England’s greatness and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power:… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many voters dress… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form of widespread… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share
