Jun 22, 2022 The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
May 13, 2021 Shashi Tharoor reads it out, point by point. The long list of missteps, gross errors of judgement, and active sins of commission—from the first lockdown to the present catastrophe.
Oct 28, 2020 The threat of Hindi imposition, the failed three-language formula, a perceived, deeper design and a likely solution
Oct 16, 2019 Dalrymple marshals facts masterfully to detail how the British—scheming, suborning, menacing—swooped down on a chaotic India and carved out an empire
Aug 29, 2019 A fine public servant, a minister of rare distinction, a Delhi insider
Aug 25, 2019 With Arun Jaitley's passing, the nation has lost a fine public servant, a minister of rare distinction and a man whose interventions—whether in speeches or blogs—made significant contributions to the national discourse, writes Shashi Tharoor.
Oct 24, 2015 You will, woncha? By mid-October? While the goddess is straw still?.... Oh, but to count the bellows of the beast!
Aug 08, 2018 Sonia Gandhi’s story is extraordinary on every level. Fairytales do no justice, writes Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
Oct 20, 2016 Railways only served the ends of imperial loot and barefaced racism
Oct 07, 2016 The world of 140 characters has captured the imagination of millions, including politicians, in India
Apr 29, 2006 There's a lot here—dysfunctional Muslims, the magic of numbers, psychotic depression. But terrorism? No.
Oct 23, 2010 The media would do well to heed political and world events than affaires d’amour
Dec 11, 2010 Nayantara Sahgal’s biography of Nehru is uncritical, yet thought-provoking and fresh
Feb 12, 2011 Intense cricketing rivalry can make for good matches. But India and Pakistan paint it over with politics.
Feb 26, 2011 This fluent first novel set in trouble-torn Kashmir impresses with its mature prose, but in its one-sided imagining of recent history and political reality comes close to being agitprop
Apr 08, 2011 A brilliant first novel on cricket in Lanka is quirky and profound. It also revives the metaphor of sport as life.
Jun 10, 2011 A timely study of India’s foreign policy: exhaustive, empathetic yet critical of a lack of strategic vision
Sep 09, 2011 A satire on the iniquities and inequalities of Pakistan empathises with its characters, but weakens at the end
Nov 11, 2011 A tale of innocence, greed, guile and idealism told in awkward English rings vividly true. Bhagat’s novel will be read by lakhs; that’s his claim to serious consideration.
Jun 22, 2012 India’s nuclear management is hopelessly addle-brained. Koithara shows up the cracks and ways to repair them.
Jul 14, 2012 In this extract from his book, Shashi Tharoor talks of India’s need to leverage its soft power in pursuit of its global strategy
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Apr 26, 2013 Multitudes have to be connected to modernity for our great leap forward
Nov 28, 2014 Setting sail with Christophorus Columbus, on his grand quest for magnificent El Indio, is a Malayali