Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
India’s first month in 20 years as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council began well with our election to the chair of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee at the start of the New Year. The Committee, the UN’s top body on terrorism issues, is an institution of
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A couple of years ago, I was invited to address the Trivandrum Management Association on the subject “energizing Kerala”. I found that odd, because the only place in the world where Keralites seem to need energizing is Kerala. Look around the planet, and you see Keralites everywhere, working extremely hard,
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What are the prospects for the expansion of liberal space in India over the next two decades? To me this desirable objective requires both growth and equity. It’s happening, but there’s still a lot that needs to be done before we get there.
The benefits of economic growth must reach all
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NEW DELHI – With the Nobel Peace Prize presented this month in the absence of this year’s laureate, the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, it might be wise to think of a man who never won the prize: Mahatma Gandhi. Despite that omission, there is no doubting Gandhiji’s worldwide significance
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Are India and China doomed to Great Power rivalry? Is the “moral” foreign policy of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru obsolete? Will Bollywood equal Hollywood as a source of “soft” power? Is India now a de facto ally of the United States and Japan? Will democracy help or hinder India’s
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Dr. Shashi Tharoor
2009-2010
STEPS TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT
· Played a crucial role in gaining an IPL team for Kerala. Through this the possibility of Thiruvananthapuram getting a cricket stadium of international standard has been strengthened.
· Record
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Few statesmen of the 20th century have reputations as outsize as Winston Churchill's. And yet his assiduously self-promoted image as what the author Harold Evans called "the British Lionheart on the ramparts of civilization" rests primarily on his World War II rhetoric, rather than his actions as the head of
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US President Barack Obama’s successful visit to India and his historic speech to a joint session of Parliament capped a milestone week in Indo-US relations. This was his sixth encounter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in various forums in the last 18 months, but his first in New Delhi, and
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As stage-managed elections ratify the consequences of three decades of military rule in Burma, the perspective from its neighbor India may help explain why there is continued international acceptance of the country’s long-ruling junta.
Burma was ruled as part of Britain’s Indian Empire until 1935, and the
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