Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — 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
