Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
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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A satire on the iniquities and inequalities of Pakistan empathises with its characters, but weakens at the end
Satire is the most difficult kind of fiction to write: it holds up serious, often solemn, and sometimes sacred matters to amusement or ridicule. Successful satire makes the absurd, the exaggerated and the
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11th September, 2011
It is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the terrible events of September 11, 2001 events which forced every one of us to explore how to move forward in an increasingly uncertain world, and to reflect on how to cope with terrorism at home and
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September 2nd, 2011
Few things in international affairs are more agreeable, all round, than the non-official dialogues diplomats refer to as “Track-II”.
New Delhi played host this month to a visiting delegation of Pakistani parliamentarians, brought here by an enterprising Islamabad NGO called PILDAT (the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency).
The
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Campion Is A Stage - Shashi Tharoor class of '71 when in std VIII B in 1968
Campion is a stage
And all the boys in it merely players
They have their mid-terms and their terminals
And one boy in his time play many roles
His acts being seven ages. At first the New Boy
With
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As one who has long urged an end to public apathy about politics, I'm inspired by seeing the passion of Annaji's followers. I share their passion against corruption, and I have no doubt that he has touched a chord amongst millions of Indians.
But we must remember that the
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