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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Shashi Tharoor

“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I…

— 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…

— Shashi Tharoor

“On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put aside, and India celebrates. Many…

— Shashi Tharoor

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be…

— 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…

— 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…

— Shashi Tharoor

Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has…

— Shashi Tharoor

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

— Shashi Tharoor

“The Mahatma’s singular insight was that self-government would never be achieved by the resolutions passed by a self-regarding and unelected elite pursuing…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Britain is no longer ‘Thatcherite’, though in the aftermath of ‘Brexit’, it may even be worse. The need to temper British imperial…

— Shashi Tharoor

“the British economic historian Angus Maddison has demonstrated, India’s share of the world economy was 23 per cent, as large as all…

— Shashi Tharoor

“It was not just the maharajas who had to suffer: every Indian schoolchild must lament the influence of the British dress code…

— Shashi Tharoor

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Like most Hindus, I think I have. I am, as I told you, a believer, despite a brief period of schoolboy atheism…

— Shashi Tharoor

A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their…

— Shashi Tharoor

“The racism of the colonial state was also reflected in its penal code. The Criminal Tribes Legislation, 1911, gave authority to the…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there’s trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong…

— Shashi Tharoor

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens,…

— Shashi Tharoor