Commentaries by Shashi Tharoor

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  Jun. 14, 2013

  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…

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  May 13, 2013

  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 …

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  Apr. 19, 2013

  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…

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  Mar. 27, 2013

  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…

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  Feb. 12, 2013

  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…

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  Jan. 15, 2013

  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…

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  Dec. 13, 2012

  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…

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  Nov. 14, 2012

  The Emerging World’s Education Imperative

  NEW DELHI – Official delegations from the world’s nine most populous developing countries just met in New Delhi to discuss a subject vital f…

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  Oct. 4, 2012

  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…

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  Sep. 12, 2012

  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 …