India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“India, under Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, accounts for 27 per cent of the world economy.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
When I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity. In fact, they were so rare that elected members of Parliament had… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette,… — 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
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
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single sacred… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more potent than facts. Loyalty is… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in the world that balances… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there’s an old Hindu story about Truth. It seems a brash young warrior sought… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being… — 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
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
There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Because so many voters happen to be illiterate, India invented the party symbol, so that voters who could not read the name… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious… — 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
In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path;… — 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
“Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with the words… — 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 Image
“My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“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 Image
