Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
March 26, 2000
Some years ago, the acerbic British Labour Party parliamentarian Denis Healey compared an attack on him by Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe to being "savaged by a dead sheep". He came to mind the other day,
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
March 05, 2000
It is always a pleasure to introduce Indian readers to a new novel by a writer who is not as well known in our country as he deserves to be. Vassily Aksyonov enjoys a formidable reputation as one
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
January 23, 2000
In my last two columns I advanced some thoughts on the significance of the millennial moment in which we are living. Today, I should like to conclude my reflections on the century that has just passed from our
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
January 16, 2000
In my last column, I advanced some thoughts on the significance of the millennial moment in which we are living. Today, I should like to continue my reflections on what might be our perspectives as we look back
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
January 02, 2000
I suppose it is impossible for any columnist to ignore the millennial moment. Is there any logic, one might well ask., to looking back on a period of a 100 years selected for no other reason than the
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
December 12, 1999
Since my college debating days, and as a writer, I have always preferred argument to data. Not that facts aren't essential to a good argument; reasoning, as any good lawyer will tell you, always requires evidence. It's just
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
November 28, 1999
“The one place I never expected to see you or the United Nations,’’ a friend wisecracked the other day, ‘‘was in the sports pages. Who could have imagined you or the UN in the cricket news?’’
He was only
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
November 14, 1999
Last month I found myself in Sarajevo on the day that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan greeted the new-born baby hailed as the six billionth inhabitant of our planet. I had visited the city many times before, as a
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By Shashi Tharoor
Column "A View of the World" in "Indian Express"
October 31, 1999
As regular readers of this column know, I am careful to keep my writing life distinct from my ‘other’ life as a United Nations official, where I currently toil as Director of Communications in the Office of the
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By SHASHI THAROOR
August 08, 1997
A year ago, when India celebrated the 49th anniversary of its independence from British rule, H. D. Deve Gowda, then the Prime Minister, stood at the ramparts of New Delhi's 16th-century Red Fort and delivered the traditional Independence Day address to the nation in Hindi, India's
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