Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
November 23, 2008
Movies made by westerners about India have rarely been worth writing home about, ranging as they've done from the appallingly ignorant racism of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to David Lean's well-intentioned but
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
November 16, 2008
Though the euphoria surrounding Barack Obama’s election last week as president-elect has not yet begun to subside, it is already time to recognise that the most important challenge facing the next US president is to restore America’s
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
November 09, 2008
Sometimes mere words are not enough to capture the feelings associated with a particular moment. The election of a black American president on Tuesday has defied the skills of the most gifted wordsmiths. Historic, epochal, the dawn
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
November 02, 2008
In two days, in an election that has attracted an unprecedented level of global attention, America elects its 44th president. So much has been written about it, including in this space, that another analysis would be otiose.
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
October 26, 2008
For a few weeks now I have tried to keep my promise to regularly cite and respond to readers' reactions, but I have to admit that the quantity and flow of mail has been a bit overwhelming
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
October 19, 2008
The recent convulsions in the international financial markets have provoked an unseemly amount of gloating on the part of many in the developing world. That presidents Fidel Castro and Mohammed Ahmedinejad should pronounce themselves vindicated by the
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
October 12, 2008
Last week, in responding to some of the hundreds of reactions i received to my September 28 column on the anti-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka, i tackled the vexed question of conversions to Christianity, which many
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
October 05, 2008
My last column has triggered an overwhelming response. Gratifyingly, many readers (including several describing themselves as believing Hindus) are as outraged as I was at the anti-Christian thuggery that has been perpetrated in
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
September 28, 2008
There are basically two kinds of politics in our country: the politics of division and the politics of unity. The former is by far the more popular, as politicians seek to slice and dice the electorate into
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
September 21, 2008
Last week, in taking a broad view of the US political process, I ended by describing how president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Depression-era coalition of labour unions, racial minorities, Southern rednecks and Eastern intellectuals, backing his “New Deal”,
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