The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Though the euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's election last week as President-elect has not yet begun to subside, it is already time to… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.… — 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
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
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… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
There's no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still… — 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
