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.
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Commentaries by Shashi Tharoor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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India’s American Relations
NEW DELHI – With America’s presidential election looming, perhaps its most striking aspect from an Indian point of view is that no one in Ne…
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…
The Resurrection of Congress
Kaleem Alam: Mr. Tharoor was not honest with his analysis, the Congress victory was not solely due to congress itself, rather it was aided by the infighting within BJP and Mr. Yeddyurappa's spoiler game for BJP. …