Why India Needs America to Remain the Superpower
I was thrilled to hear Thomas Friedman's response to my question from the audience at the Tata Litfest here in Mumbai a few days ago. At the end of a ...
I was thrilled to hear Thomas Friedman's response to my question from the audience at the Tata Litfest here in Mumbai a few days ago. At the end of a ...
Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW DELHI --- "Incredible India." For tourism purposes, that slogan has served India well, but it is insufficient to convey the identity of a rising...
Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011
What was supposed to be a breakthrough meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan last month degenerated into a public rebuke of Indi...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW DELHI — Shashi Tharoor, India's junior foreign minister and a one-time candidate for the post of U.N. secretary-general, has resigned amid a...
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
It has become rather fashionable these days to speak of India and China in the same breath. These are the two big countries said to be taking over the...
Rani Singh | Posted 05.25.2011
The Congress party and United Progressive Alliance President, Sonia Gandhi has commenced an austerity drive amongst her cohort of politicians.
Sandip Roy | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011
At the end of the two-day long debate, the BJP showed its disagreement with the government by walking out of Parliament yet again.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
In all fairness, you don't have to be brown to be selected for extra-special attention in airports, though it helps.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Anant Goenka | Posted 01.04.2012