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Indian Politicians Begin Austerity Drive As Nation Faces Worst Drought In 40 Years

Rani Singh | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Gandhi, Drought, India, Nehru, United Progressive Alliance, Sonia Gandhi, Congress Party, Austerity Drive India, Indian Politicians, India Drought, Shashi Tharoor, Sonia Gandhi India, World News
Rani Singh

The Congress party and United Progressive Alliance President, Sonia Gandhi has commenced an austerity drive amongst her cohort of politicians.

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Holy Cow! It's Still Twittergate in India

Sandip Roy | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

Read More: India, Twitter, Twittergate, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Sandip Roy

India is in the middle of Twittergate. A government minister said he would fly "cattle class" instead of business. It was funny. But not in a country of holy cows.

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The Political Risks Of Tweeting In The Land Of Sacred Cows

Mira Kamdar | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: India, India Politics, Shashi Tharoor Tweeting, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Mira Kamdar

India's new-media savvy minister Shashi Tharoor has tweeted up a domestic political tempest in a country where sensitivities are ever on a hair-trigger alert for any sign of religious or class offense.

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Indo-Pak: Back to Business Unusual

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Yusaf Raza Gilani, Indo-Pak Joint Statement, Yanshwant Sinha, Dr Manmohan Singh, Shiv Shankar Menon, Sonia Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Pranab Mukherjee, BJP Government, Bjp, India Pakistan Conflict, India Pakistan Relations, India Pakistan Relationship, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

At the end of the two-day long debate, the BJP showed its disagreement with the government by walking out of Parliament yet again.

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Indian Ocean Unity

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Indian Ocean, Shashi Tharoor, IOR-ARC, Nato, Mercosur, Asean, Indian Ocean Rim Countries' Association for Regional Cooperation, World News
Shashi Tharoor

What international association brings together 18 countries, straddling three continents thousands of miles apart, united solely by their sharing of a common body of water?

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Indian Strategic Power: Soft

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Parliament, India, Tharoor, Shashi, Shashi-Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, Election, World News
Shashi Tharoor

To wield soft power, India must defend, assert and promote its culture of openness against the forces of intolerance and bigotry inside and outside the country.

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Which Way India? Decision Next Week

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: India, Tharoor, Election Results, Shashi, Shashi-Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, Election, Indian Elections, Mumbai-India, World News
Shashi Tharoor

New Delhi -- A month after they first queued to vote in India's mammoth general election, the country's voters will learn the outcome on May 16. The e...

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Corruption

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, India, Political Corruption, Tharoor, Shashi, Shashi-Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Shashi Tharoor

For the affluent, corruption is at worst a nuisance; for the salaried middle-class, it can be an indignity and a burden; but for the poor, it is often a tragedy.

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Police Brutality

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Police Brutality, India, Tharoor, Shashi, Slumdog Millionaire, Shashi-Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Shashi Tharoor

The police may have fallen into the pattern of routinely continuing practices left over from India's colonial days, when police were instruments of repression, but that's no excuse today.

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The World's Greatest Democracy Keeps Breaking Its Own Record

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

Read More: India, Parliament, Tharoor, Shashi, Shashi Tharoor, Election, India Elections, Indian Elections, Delhi-India, World News
Shashi Tharoor

Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world's largest democracy.

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Campaign Journal from Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Parliament, India, Tharoor, Shashi, Shashi-Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Shashi Tharoor

The Indian National Congress party announced my nomination as its candidate for the Lok Sabh. It's a huge turn in my life and involves a further "reboot" two years after leaving the UN.

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An Open Response to "an Open Letter to Shashi Tharoor"

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: India, Coca-Cola, Tharoor, Polution, Shashi Tharoor, Foundation, Kerala, Shashi, World News
Shashi Tharoor

Let me add with a heavy heart how much I deplore both the content and tone of your letter. It is tragic that actions such as yours ensure that politics overrides the genuine needs of the people.

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Air Farce

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: India, Airlines, Tsa, Tharoor, Air Travel, Shashi Tharoor, Politics News
Shashi Tharoor

In all fairness, you don't have to be brown to be selected for extra-special attention in airports, though it helps.

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After the Horror

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, India, Shashi Tharoor, Pakistan, Mumbai, Mumbai Terrorism, World News
Shashi Tharoor

As evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate.

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Muslims and the Indian Police

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Hinduism, India, Muslim, Police Abuse, Terrorism, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Shashi Tharoor

The general public feels it is not adequately protected against the random violence of terrorists, but every pro-active policing effort seriously alienates Muslims, India's largest minority community.

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Keep up the spirit to fight

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Hinduism, India, Mumbai, Shashi Tharoor, Home News
Shashi Tharoor

There is a savage irony to the fact that the horror in Mumbai began with terrorists docking near the Gateway of India. The magnificent arch, built in ...

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Terrorism in Mumbai: Is It All Over for India?

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Gateway of India, India, Mumbai, Islamists, Shashi Tharoor, Mumbai Terrorism, Politics News
Shashi Tharoor

Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India. What can destroy India is a change in the spirit of its people, away from the pluralism and co-existence that has been our greatest strength.

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Gritty Portrait of Real India on Reel: A Review of Slumdog Millionaire

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Anil Kapoor, India, Swarup, Shashi Tharoor, Movies, Slumdog Millionaire Review, Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire, Entertainment News
Shashi Tharoor

For the first time since Gandhi, there's genuine Oscar buzz around a movie set in India, with Indian characters, Indian actors and Indian themes.

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How Obama Can Win the World's Trust

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Anti-Americanism, Tharoor, Shashi Tharoor, Obama, America's Image in the World, Shashi, Barack Obama, International, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Shashi Tharoor

America has no need to act as if it has nothing to teach the rest of the world. The best way to do so is to revive America's finest traditions.

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Have No Fear, Things Won't be so Bad

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Tharoor, Pakistan, Shashi Tharoor, Obama, Mccain, Ctbt, Shashi, Barack Obama, Obama and India, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction Abroad, Politics News
Shashi Tharoor

It's clear that Obama is more knowledgeable about India than any previous American president. But there are those who argue that Obama would not be "good for India" in the way Bush has.

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Importance of appearing to be earnest

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, John Edwards, India, Tharoor, Shashi, International, Shashi Tharoor, Home News
Shashi Tharoor

Note from the contributor: Shashi Tharoor's latest column in the Times of India (November 2, 2008) explains the US elections to Indian readers and he...

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Learn from Past Mistakes and Move On

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business

Read More: India, Poverty, International Economy, Economy, Politics, Shashi Tharoor, Financial Crisis, Capitalism, International, Business News
Shashi Tharoor

The recent convulsions in the international financial markets have provoked an unseemly amount of gloating on the part of many in the developing world.

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