Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
It’s been more than a week since my wife and I returned from a five-day visit to Pakistan, but images and impressions of the trip are still vivid in the memory. Rather than attempt a comprehensive analysis of relations with that country — which should probably wait my next book!
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Security Council Reform: Past, Present, and Future
Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 25.4 (Winter 2011)
December 15, 2011
Even though it has been more than a year since I left the service of the United Nations, the one question people have not stopped asking me here in India is when our country, with
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The dearth of genuine Test all-rounders is a stark reality, a worrying fact, as not many cricketers offer consistent all-round quality these days, notes Shashi Tharoor.
The series between Australia and South Africa was notable for featuring two world-class all-rounders on opposite sides. Jacques Kallis and Shane Watson -- the former
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Pending bills, disrupted sessions, no legislation. Maybe it’s time for Parliament to go, says Shashi Tharoor
THE RECENT political shenanigans in New Delhi, notably the repeated paralysis of Parliament by slogan-shouting members violating (with impunity) every canon of legislative propriety, have confirmed once again what some of us have been
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NEW DELHI – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November 7, at a time when Italy was reeling from the euro crisis and Silvio Berlusconi’s impending political demise, offered a fraught reminder of the potential, and the limits, of India’s relationship with the European Union.
India has
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By Shashi Tharoor and Keerthik Sasidharan
To travel is to wilfully leap into the unknown - to give up the assured security of home for the exigencies of the world. This is true whether one journeys from home to a nearby town to see a mela, or to another continent in
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I know it’s customary, when one speaks to an audience, to say it’s a pleasure to be here. I have to admit that pleasure is not the word that comes to mind, because I’ve just had a very moving visit to various parts of the RCC. I saw the patients
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Poorly supported by the lethargic and self-interested administrators of the Kerala [ Images ] Cricket Association, Kochi Tuskers Kerala had promised to rewrite the cricketing history of the state. Their demise is a blow whose major victim is Kerala cricket itself, writes Shashi Tharoor, member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram
Monday's decision
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A global affairs column might seem an odd place to talk about the movement of Anna Hazare and his followers, but the reason I do so is that we all speak of them under the collective label of “civil society”, and yet there has been little international perspective on what
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Three years ago, with the publication of “Sea of Poppies,” his sixth novel, the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh embarked on a trilogy about the experience of emigration, both coerced and voluntary, in the early 19th century. That novel, about the indentured servants press-ganged from India’s Gangetic plain and shipped off
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