Minister of State
for External Affairs
Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
Shashi Tharoor, C.V. Balakrishnan, Mukesh, P.T. Usha, Kochouseph Chittilappally and Neena Prasad.
Kozhikode: No festival can touch a Malayali the way Onam does. What better occasion than this to do some soul-searching! What are the things that make you proud as a
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NEW DELHI: Troubled by celebrity news dominating world affairs coverage in Indian newspapers, minister of state for external affairs Shashi
Tharoor on Thursday said papers must move away from mere tokenism. He added that this was happening even as news coverage
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Kochi: Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said that Sino-Indian relationship should be viewed not only in the context of problems, but in terms of opportunities as well.
Addressing the media after the launch of a few schemes
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NEW DELHI – 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?
That is a quiz question likely to stump the most devoted aficionado of global politics. It's the Indian Ocean Rim Countries’ Association for
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Shashi Tharoor combines many roles – special executive assistant to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, novelist, and India-watcher. In India on a whistle-stop tour to attend the usual rounds of seminars, he took time off his busy schedule to look at seven distinct trends that he believes could imperil
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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 election, staggered over five phases - involving five polling days over four weeks, rather than one "election day" - will determine who rules the world's largest
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The Indian elections are over. What is all this talk of Indian strategic power? Not so fast…
As an Indian, I have become a little concerned about the proliferation of those who speak of India as a future ‘world leader’ or even as ‘the next superpower.’ The American publishers of my
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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 election, staggered over five phases — involving five polling days over four weeks, rather than one "election day" — will determine who rules
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One of the questions people keep asking me since my entry into politics is what we can do about corruption. What would I do, one citizen recently asked in an on-line chat, if I became the "concerned authority"? No such prospect - the Vigilance Commissioner isn't a Member of Parliament!
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As the well-deserved excitement over the worldwide success of Slumdog Millionaire fades at last, it may be time to address an issue peripherally raised by the movie that has been entirely ignored amidst all the hoopla. The film opens with and features horrifying scenes of police brutality, with the cops
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