The Empire, in Hobsbawm’s evocative words, was ‘so easily…

“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

“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The”

— Shashi Tharoor

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

— Shashi Tharoor

“In debate he thought high and aimed low.”

— Shashi Tharoor

“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

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

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

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

— Shashi Tharoor