Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is the Sahitya Akademi award-winning author of 22 books, including most recently ‘The Battle of Belonging’ He is the third-term Lok Sabha MP for Thiruvananthapuram

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Celebrations in Bengaluru

After Karnataka, more lessons for the BJP

‘It is time for an urgent debate in Parliament on India’s China strategy’.

India’s China strategy needs to be debated

Shashi Tharoor,Armaan Mathur

A pencil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, drawn from life in 1931

A very different conception of ‘Ram Rajya’

‘The intellectual history of colonialism is littered with many a wilful cause of more recent conflict’

The colonial past is still relevant

‘The flowers do not smell any different’

Making a name, with onomastics

Mahatma Gandhi in London, a picture taken at the request of Lord Irwin in 1931

A betrayal of the very idea of the Mahatma

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Kochi

In the new evolving world, India needs a new vision

Shashi Tharoor, Praveen Chakravarty

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A role for India in a world wide web

‘The suggestion was that the Government come back with a ‘matrix’ to justify reservations. But the Government, not wanting to touch a Pandora’s box, never came back with one’

The EWS judgment and the shadow of Pandora

‘In the national interest’. The yatra at Kanniyakumari

‘Bharat Jodo’ and ‘Congress Jodo’ as opportunities

Jawaharlal Nehru delivers his famous “Tryst with Destiny” speech on August 15, 1947 at Parliament House in New Delhi.

Independence, in the words of an American

Why the world needs peace in Ukraine

The export of aspects of Indianness

Musings on ‘Indic civilization’ and Indianness

‘The only hope for the future lies in international solidarity’

The world must live and work together again