--- title: "4 Few Quotes By Shashi Tharoor" description: "4 Few quotes by Shashi Tharoor. Plus more from Shashi Tharoor and more Few sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/shashi-tharoor-2698_about_i-have-been-a-frequent-air-traveler-sinc_559227.png" --- > [I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/i-have-been-a-frequent-air-traveler-since-i-was-a-few-months-shy-of/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/550/shashi-tharoor-2698_about_i-have-been-a-frequent-air-traveler-sinc_559227.png) > [Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/global-challenges-also-require-global-solutions-and-few-indeed-are/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/202/shashi-tharoor-2698_act_global-challenges-also-require-global-so_1112694.png) > [There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/there-was-a-time-when-bright-people-had-few-prospects-for-higher/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7e/shashi-tharoor-2698_bright_there-was-a-time-when-bright-people-had_1842170.jpg) > [I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/i-returned-to-india-because-i-believe-in-an-india-of-honesty-and-hard/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/shashi-tharoor-2698_available_i-returned-to-india-because-i-believe-in_2210187.png) ## Other authors on Few ## More by Shashi Tharoor > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/six-decades-of-independence-have-wrought-significant-change-as/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) > [“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/my-china-diary-and-walking-with-lions-were-memoirs-of-his-diplomatic/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/the-u-n-guards-the-vital-principles-entrenched-in-its-charter-notably/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/control-the-people-s-character-is-deliberately-debased-their-mind-is/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/the-past-is-not-necessarily-a-guide-to-the-future-but-it-does-partly/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/the-steep-decline-in-america-s-image-and-standing-after-9-11-is-a/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/on-election-days-the-burdens-of-poverty-and-corruption-and-of-a/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/history-in-any-case-cannot-be-reduced-to-some-sort-of-game-of/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/india-is-my-country-and-in-that-sense-my-outrage-is-personal-but-i/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) > [I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/i-make-no-bones-about-the-fact-that-india-matters-to-me-and-i-would/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) > [“In debate he thought high and aimed low.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/in-debate-he-thought-high-and-aimed-low/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/jawaharlal-nehru-who-wrote-in-a-1936-letter-to-an-englishman-lord/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/much-of-the-conventional-analysis-of-india-s-stature-in-the-world/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/universality-of-the-un-is-a-worthwhile-thing-in-its-own-self-because/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) > [The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shashi-tharoor/the-chinese-as-befits-a-communist-autocracy-approached-the-task-of/) [Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shashi-tharoor/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/few/shashi-tharoor/#itemlist", "name": "4 Few Quotes By Shashi Tharoor", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. 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