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 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
