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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is India’s Minister of State for Human Resource Development. His most recent book is Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century.


Commentaries by Shashi Tharoor

  • Newsart for India’s LBW

    India’s LBW

    NEW DELHI – A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenl…

  • Newsart for The Resurrection of Congress

    The Resurrection of Congress

    NEW DELHI – The overwhelming victory of the Indian National Congress in elections in the important southern state of Karnataka in early May …

  • Newsart for Bangladesh’s Quest for Justice

    Bangladesh’s Quest for Justice

    NEW DELHI – The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual de…

  • Newsart for The New Delhi Consensus

    The New Delhi Consensus

    NEW DELHI – One of the more remarkable (though largely unremarked) developments in recent Indian politics has been the startling shift in th…

  • Newsart for Pandora’s Inbox

    Pandora’s Inbox

    NEW DELHI – A half-century before the invention of e-mail, T. S. Eliot asked, “Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the k…

  • Newsart for The Global Indian

    The Global Indian

    KOCHI, INDIA – No other country has anything like it – an annual jamboree of its diaspora, conducted with great fanfare by its government. I…

  • Newsart for A World of Schoolgirls

    A World of Schoolgirls

    NEW DELHI – One of the more difficult questions I found myself being asked when I was a United Nations under-secretary-general, especially w…

  • Newsart for Manmohan Singh’s Second Wind

    Manmohan Singh’s Second Wind

    NEW DELHI – In September, India’s mild-mannered prime minister, Manmohan Singh, turned 80. He also turned a page: After months of being pill…

  • Newsart for India’s Hostage Parliament

    India’s Hostage Parliament

    NEW DELHI – The ongoing disruption of the “monsoon session” of the Indian parliament has showcased both the resilience of India’s democracy …

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Recent comment received by Shashi Tharoor

  • India’s LBW

    M Patel: It is ironic that Shashi is writing about IPL scandal. In April 2010, Shashi was forced to resign, from his position as Union Minister, after a cricket official disclosed that his girlfriend, Sunanda …

  • The Resurrection of Congress

    Prashant Kumar: What i dont agree with in this article is his statement that 'all bets are off'. There is still a clear lean towards other parties for central rule. The one thing about Indian politics, unlike that of…

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