Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
September 14, 2008
The US presidential elections have entered the home stretch. As i write, in the wake of the Republican Convention, the respected Zogby/Reuters poll has just put the Republican ticket of senator John McCain
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
September 07, 2008
In four days’ time, the world’s newspapers and airwaves will again be full of references to international terrorism, marking the seventh anniversary of what the Americans have taught us to call 9/11. Indians can well be forgiven
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
August 31, 2008
In five days we will be celebrating Teachers' Day — on the birthday of our great teacher-president, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, September 5. But our ritualistic honouring of the great profession of educators will do nothing to conceal
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
August 24, 2008
The implosion of John Edwards' political career will probably be remembered as a minor footnote in American politics this election year. The former North Carolina senator and former Democratic vice presidential nominee, a serious contender for the
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
August 17, 2008
We've turned 61. One more Independence Day has gone by. Thirty-three years ago, when i was fresh out of college and about to proceed to the United States for post-graduate studies, a leading national newspaper asked me
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
August 10, 2008
Twelve years ago, when India celebrated the 49th anniversary of our 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
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
August 03, 2008
In an April 20 column, I argued the case for Sino-Indian economic co-operation, suggesting the two countries had complementarities that could make such co-operation mutually beneficial (as some companies in both countries are already proving). I also
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
July 27, 2008
We've all received those ubiquitous emails in our in-box, though mercifully most of them these days are caught by our spam filters. Emails offering expensive drugs at hard-to-beat prices - drugs against cholesterol, blood pressure, arthritis and
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
July 20, 2008
In all the brouhaha about the Indo-US nuclear deal, not enough attention has been paid to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent announcement of a credible energy plan for India that goes way beyond
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By Shashi Tharoor
Weekly Column "Shashi on Sunday" in "The Times of India"
July 13, 2008
After all those heady, exciting, nail-biting months when primary succeeded caucus and every political junkie in America became a self-appointed expert in delegate math, US presidential politics is in a curious lull these days. The presumptive Republican
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