Shashi Tharoor

Why India Needs America to Remain the Superpower

Anant Goenka | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Chinese Economy, Chinese Government, India, Thomas Friedman, China US Relations, Indo-US, China, Indo-Chinese Relationship, Shashi Tharoor, World News
Anant Goenka

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 ...

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India Should Upgrade Its Public Diplomacy

Philip Seib | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navdeep Suri, China, Nuripama Rao, Shashi Tharoor, Public Diplomacy, Pakistan, Inida, World News
Philip Seib

NEW DELHI --- "Incredible India." For tourism purposes, that slogan has served India well, but it is insufficient to convey the identity of a rising...

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Shunned, Will He Bolt?

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress Party, Isi, India, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Bjp, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, America, Afghanistan, Shashi Tharoor, Pakistan, Kashmir, Chidambaram, Rahul Gandhi, Yousaf Raza Gilani, New Delhi, Asif Ali Zardari, Narendra Modi, LK Advani, Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Tamil, World News
Sunil Sharan

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...

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Shashi Tharoor Resigns: India Cricket Scandal Takes Down Government Minister

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shashi Tharoor, India, Cricket, India Cricket, India Cricket Scandal, Indian Premier League, Kochi, Lalit Modi, Twenty20, Manmohan Singh, World News

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...

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Olympic Proof: India is Not China

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Tharoor, Shashi, Olympics, Shashi Tharoor, China, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Home News
Shashi Tharoor

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...

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

Rani Singh | Posted 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Ocean, Shashi Tharoor, Nato, Asean, Indian Ocean Rim Countries' Association for Regional Cooperation, Ior-Arc, Mercosur, Sana'A, 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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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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Terrorism in Mumbai: Is It All Over for India?

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Keep up the spirit to fight

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

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

Shashi Tharoor | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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 05.25.2011

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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