Akkulam Road Inauguration
Seen in the picture are:
PWD Minister VK Ibrahimkunju
MA Vahid MLA
Johnson Joseph opposition Leader TVPM Corporation&
Shashi Tharoor with MP& CM of Kerala Shri Oommen Chandy
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Press Articles and Interviews
Shashi Tharoor condoles AK Damodaran’s death
Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, MP, on Wednesday expressed grief at the passing away of veteran diplomat and writer AK Damodaran.
"I express my profound condolences at the loss of Damodaran, one of India's finest diplomats, who passed away after a long and distinguished life yesterday," Tharoor, a former UN Under
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Tweet that won’t go away
Whether in Guwahati or Galle, and no matter how many years might pass, it looks like former United Nations bureaucrat-turned-Indian-politician Shashi Tharoor will be best remembered for the “cattle class” remark made on twitter.
At the Galle Literary Festival, where Tharoor was one of the largest crowd-pullers this year, the question
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I want to be a part of India’s narrative in the world: Tharoor
Dr. Shashi Tharoor is in between a sessions with Tom Stoppard and Nayantara Sahgal when I finally catch up with him in the library at Amangalla in Galle Fort. As his 1.2 million followers on twitter already know, he’s in Galle for GLF. His resume on the site is also
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Warmth in Pak
It’s been more than a week since my wife and I returned from a five-day visit to Pakistan, but images and impressions of the trip are still vivid in the memory. Rather than attempt a comprehensive analysis of relations with that country — which should probably wait my next book!
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Reopen Vilappilsala Plant: Tharoor
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Expressing serious concern over the crisis in the city ever since the stoppage of garbage collection from December 21, Shashi Tharoor MP has called for the immediatereopening of the Vilappilsala garbage plant in order to restore the status quo, with a conviction and plan to address larger issues and
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5 minutes with Shashi Tharoor
Writer, orator,diplomat,politician- Can you ever bracket him? On that lucky day, when we got the chance of our lives, we chose to interview Shashi Tharoor, the writer.
Sir, you’ve had a glittering career full of professional achievements – and hope it continues. But what do you think is your
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Shashi Tharoor a big hit among Pakistanis
Former minister Shashi Tharoor had lost a few fans when he quit the Union Council but his fan base has grown, making him a huge hit even in Pakistan. Despite his blunt speak on Pakistan, Mr Shashi was received with warmth. “Has been having a good trip2Pak! The people are
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Youth have a major role in nation-building: Tharoor
PUNE: Former Union minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that youngsters, especially students, have a vital role to play in the process of nation building. "The youth should not hesitate from joining this process as they have several role models before them to emulate," he said.
Tharoor
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Civil-military imbalance in Pak impeding Indo-Pak ties: Tharoor
Press Trust Of India
Islamabad, January 05, 2012
The civil-military imbalance in Islamabad is a key factor impeding India-Pakistan relations despite a large constituency for peace in both countries, former Indian minister Shashi Tharoor said in Islamabad on Thursday. The dominant role played by the security establishment in shaping
Pakistan’s foreign policy and
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‘Aman ki Asha’ can do wonders for Pakistan, India: Tharoor
Moayyed Jafri
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
LAHORE: Aman ki Asha is playing a key role in making progress through Indo-Pak people-to-people and sector-to-sector interactions, which can genuinely change the climate and the environment in which apparently intractable problems can be resolved.
These views were shared by an Indian parliamentarian and former undersecretary-general
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Abiding desire for peace among people of India, Pakistan: Shashi Tharoor Close
LAHORE: There is an abiding desire for peace among the people of India and Pakistan, parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor said here today as he underlined the need to boost direct bilateral trade for mutual benefits.
Tharoor, who began a four-day visit to Pakistan today, said here that if you go to the
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“I have learnt lessons in politics,” says Tharoor
Listing his major achievements in the last two years as member of Lok Sabha in a 'half-term report,' Shashi Tharoor today said he was not disappointed with his work, but had learnt lessons in politics and got rid of illusions.
The diplomat-turned MP, who was elected from Thiruvanathapuram constituency, told
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MP’s Half Term Report of Progress
MP’S HALF-TERM REPORT
OF PROGRESS
Thiruvananthapuram Constituency
May 2009 - December 2011
INITIATIVES FOR DEVELOPMENT
Roads
• Successful in reviving the long dormant Kovalam – Kaliyikkavila National Highway (NH-47) Bypass work. Land acquisition formalities to be completed soon, bringing succour to thousands of families. Entire Kazhakuttam-Kaliyikavila stretch to be made a 4-lane road.
• Successful
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Don’t Politicize Mullaperiyar Dam row, Tharoor urges stakeholders
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 17 (ANI): Calling the simmering row between Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the century-old Mullaperiyar Dam an essentially 'human' issue, Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor has urged stakeholders to resolve the dispute at the earliest.
Expressing concern on the ongoing deadlock between both states, Tharoor appealed to locals as well
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Security Council Reform: Past, Present, and Future
Security Council Reform: Past, Present, and Future
Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 25.4 (Winter 2011)
December 15, 2011
Even though it has been more than a year since I left the service of the United Nations, the one question people have not stopped asking me here in India is when our country, with
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Presidential System Better for India: Tharoor
New Delhi: Advocating Presidential system, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that there are 'serious disadvantages' in Parliamentary democracy. According to Tharoor, time has come to revive the debate on adopting the 'Presidential system'.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN on November 28 Tharoor had expressed his opinion on Presidential system.
"I believe
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SHALL WE CALL THE PRESIDENT?
Pending bills, disrupted sessions, no legislation. Maybe it’s time for Parliament to go, says Shashi Tharoor
THE RECENT political shenanigans in New Delhi, notably the repeated paralysis of Parliament by slogan-shouting members violating (with impunity) every canon of legislative propriety, have confirmed once again what some of us have been
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New Dam needed at Mullaperiyar urgently: Shashi Tharoor
December 13 2011,
By Shobha Warrier
Shashi Tharoor was just back from Delhi after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with all the other members of Parliament from Kerala, on the Mullaperiyar dam issue. Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier caught him in Thiruvananthapuram for an exclusive interview.
As a Member of Parliament from Kerala, how
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Shashi Tharoor’s Initiative in NHAI’s Decision to Resume work on NH-47 Thiruvananthapuram By-pass
The 43 km portion of the NH-47 Thiruvananthapuram bypass between Kazhakuttam on the northern outskirts of the city to Karode on the Kerala/Tamil Nadu border has been a long-pending major road project of Thiruvanathapuram district. The project which has significant implications for smoothening the flow of road traffic from the
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Shashi Tharoor makes strong pitch for shipyard-cum-port at Poovar
The new shipyard and major port proposed by the Union Ministry of Shipping on the west coast of the country should be set up at Poovar in the capital district as it has significant advantages over other locations being considered, Shashi Tharoor, MP, has said.
The construction and development of a
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Uniting Humanity
Confined to bed as an asthmatic child, Shashi Tharoor considered books his oxygen.
"Books were the salvation. I read voraciously," the Indian politician said. "When I rapidly exhausted the books available to me, I wrote. Writing caught up with my very existence. It gave me a way of escaping my
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Opening Remarks at “Names not Numbers” Conference: Mumbai 26 November 2011
Today we bow our heads to commemorate a time of terror and death in a city that throbs with life and hope.
There is a savage irony to the fact that the horror in Mumbai began with terrorists docking near the Gateway of India. The magnificent arch, built in 1911
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Tamil Nadu Govt bans screening of ‘Dam999′
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu government has banned the screening of the movie 'Dam 999' with immediate effect. The movie is based on the controversy surrounding the Mullaperiyar dam.
Writer and Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor opposed the ban and said, "I have not seen the film but a dam cannot be
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Pursue ideals within realistic framework, Tharoor tells NRIs
By PMA Rashid,
November 22, 2011
SHARJAH: Expatriates are ambassadors of Indian ideals abroad. However, the UAE’s Indian Diaspora has to pursue their ideals within a realistic framework, says noted writer-politician and former UN Under-Secretary General Dr Shashi Tharoor.
Interacting with a packed audience at the “Meet the Author” programme of the 30th
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Kerala’s Hay Festival, a Break from the Norm
By Jason Staines
It’s difficult to sneeze these days without striking yet another literature festival somewhere in the region, so there can be a certain trepidation involved in attending yet another one. Living in the literary capital of New Delhi, the diet of such book-related functions can veer towards the bland
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Shashi Tharoor impresses crowd
Muaz Shabandri,
22 November 2011
SHARJAH — With a successful career in the United Nations behind him, Shashi Tharoor’s brush with Indian politics has seen him take up the role of a Member of Parliament, representing the Trivandrum constituency in Kerala.
Tharoor who has authored several books, mostly non-fiction, in his career spanning
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New India, Old Europe
NEW DELHI – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November 7, at a time when Italy was reeling from the euro crisis and Silvio Berlusconi’s impending political demise, offered a fraught reminder of the potential, and the limits, of India’s relationship with the European Union.
India has
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Shashi Tharoor issues legal notice to The Sunday Indian
Dr. Shashi Tharoor issues a legal notice to the Sunday Indian for insinuating that he has 'Black Money' hidden in Swiss Banks.
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Shashi Tharoor on UN Reform Agenda
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
India's nominee for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor has revealed a four-point plan to tackle the problems the international body is facing. He said that the biggest hurdle faced by the UN is that it has to deal with a large number
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Lunch With Shashi Tharoor- thinker, writer, diplomat
Nov 1, 2011
Ian Marlow.
As Shashi Tharoor strides into San Gimignano, an Italian restaurant nestled in the Raj-era grandeur of New Delhi’s Imperial Hotel, he politely makes a brief detour to another table. There, checking his BlackBerry, is the chief minister of India’s troubled Jammu and Kashmir state, and he is
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Floored by the generosity of spin legends
31st October 2011
Suresh Menon
Shashi Tharoor's joy at meeting Erapalli Prasanna was palpable, as was his wife Sunanda's excitement at meeting Bhagwat Chandrasekhar. The sight of these two great cricketers alone must have made the day for many of the guests. Chandra does not step out a lot, and if he
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The end is a journey
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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Kerala: Making Hay in the Indian Sun
By Sameer Rahim
October 23 2011
One of the architectural marvels of Kerala can be found in Trivandrum, the capital of the south Indian state. Situated at the centre of the city, at the top of a small hill, the Kanakakunnu Palace is a sprawling complex of beautiful buildings surrounded by lush
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The democratic temper of India
In my last column (I’m on TV, that’s why I’m angry, September 30) we looked at what “civil society” means. How can civil society impact law-making?
In a democracy, there are specific rights accorded to citizens by the state to help them exercise their political freedoms: freedom of speech and political
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I’m on TV, that’s why I’m angry
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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Amitav Ghosh’s ‘River of Smoke’: Stormy sequel doesn’t disappoint
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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Has the world really learnt the lessons of 9/11?
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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Comedy of Manners
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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Old Campionites Association
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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Shashi Tharoor on the Lok Pal Bill and Anna Hazareji
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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The world’s not enough
By Shashi Tharoor and Keerthik Sasidharan
August 18th, 2011
In the last two decades, India has gone from being one of the least globalised economies in the world to one of the most dependent on international commerce. Right up to the late 1980s, foreign travel was a rare and much-coveted luxury for
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Parliament: A curious Indian institution
August 19th, 2011
The current visit to India of the Speaker of the UK House of Commons, John Bercow, offers an amusing reminder of the similarities and differences between our two Parliaments — one the Mother of all Parliaments, the other the vividly coloured offspring of India’s political miscegenation with Britain.
In
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Reaching Out
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor with BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi outside Parliament in New Delhi on Friday during monsoon
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How good is Sehwag?
Is he ready to take his place alongside team-mates Tendulkar and Dravid in the pantheon?
As a demoralised, underprepared, injury-ridden and outclassed Indian team attempt to
regroup for the third Test, the air of expectation surrounding the return of Virender Sehwag can be compared only to that of the faithful anticipating
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China’s cheerleader
August 7th, 2011
'Henry Kissinger's world view is madarin-tinted'
Henry Kissinger is arguably the most famous diplomatic elder statesman in the world: winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, National Security Adviser and Secretary of State to US Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, now highly-paid international business consultant and author
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Delusional Liberals
July 21st, 2011
International affairs all too often seems a weighty subject, full of complexity and nuance, laden with portents of tension and conflict.
No wonder it lends itself to overly solemn treatment, full of abstract analyses and recondite allusions: the relations between countries, it is usually assumed, cannot be understood
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Poll campaign buzz around Tharoor book launch
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talked about polls in the context of the cabinet reshuffle, what appears to be early preparations for that election are under way in distant Thiruvanathapuram.
The formal launch tomorrow of Mattering to India: The Shashi Tharoor Campaign, a book by T.P. Sreenivasan, a former Indian
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C-DAC scientists told to focus on affordable tech
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JULY 14:
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has been told to work towards developing innovative and affordable technologies that will help grow India as a major power in research and development.
Addressing scientists and engineers at the C-DAC centre here on Wednesday, Dr Shashi Tharoor, said R
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Reservation facility openedat Parassala railway station
In the picture: New facility:Shashi Tharoor, MP, on the foot overbridge which he inaugurated at the Parassala railway station on Saturday
A foot overbridge constructed at a cost of Rs.61 lakh and an advanced reservation system were commissioned at the Parassala railway station by Shashi Tharoor, MP, on Saturday.
With the introduction
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A game of monopoly
The appointment last week of France’s finance minister, Christine Lagarde, as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brings an end to a race which, for all its illusions of drama and contest, was in fact entirely predictable.
The so-called Bretton Woods institutions — the World Bank and the IMF,
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Article in Society magazine
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India Gives
2011-06-10
NEW DELHI – The recent India-Africa summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which India’s government pledged $5 billion in aid to African countries, drew attention to a largely overlooked phenomenon – India’s emergence as a source, rather than a recipient, of foreign aid.
For decades after independence – when Britain left
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Statement by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP
STATEMENT BY DR SHASHI THAROOR MP
My attention has been drawn to certain reports about a payment received by me from the Organizing Committee of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
This information had been reported earlier this year and I had already responded when some sections of the media raised the matter
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Shashi Tharoor in Forbes magazine: War For Peace
Throughout history, men have waged war for power, wealth, land and occasionally over women. But rarely, except in the past two or three centuries have they gone to war to bring peace. Is peace really the raison d’etre for the wars being fought in different parts of the world? Or
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It’s bloomtime now
By Shashi Tharoor and Keerthik Sasidharan
May 22nd, 2011
In the 1920s, a young Tamil girl sang and starred in her school musical. It was, ostensibly, a private event with few outsiders. Yet so exceptional was her singing that Swadesamitran ran her photograph and wrote about the event. Seeing that photo in
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Tharoor: supply piped natural gas
Thiruvananthapuram: Shashi Tharoor, MP, has urged Union Minister for Petroleum Jaipal Reddy to consider a proposal for a pipeline to supply natural gas in Thiruvananthapuram.
In a communication to Mr. Reddy, he said the pipeline was crucial for the development of key installations in Thiruvananthapuram in the IT, Defence, health, space
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Ignore the ventriloquist
May 13th, 2011
If there is one assumption taken for granted by all of us familiar with Chinese sensitivities, it is that of “One China” — the inflexible policy adhered to by Beijing that requires the world to accept the unity and indivisibility of the Chinese nation, including not only Tibet
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‘I hope the Americans don’t exit Afghanistan’: Shashi Tharoor to Tehelka
9th May, 2011
I'm certainly not going to stand up in any way critical of what America did. I think if they had told Pakistan that they were going to do this thing, my conviction is that the operation would not have succeeded, Shashi Tharoor tells Parul Abrol
Would an operation similar
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After Sachin, Tharoor tweets to millions
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Shashi Tharoor has joined a new club of celebrities who have made their mark with their fan following through social networking. Now he has become second only to Sachin Tendulkar in the country by crossing one million followers in leading the Indian twitterati.
Shashi Tharoor, who has a big fan
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Shashi Tharoor has 1 mn Twitter followers, only Sachin ahead
Thiruvananthapuram: There is hardly a time when diplomat-turned politician Shashi Tharoor, the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP, is not in the news. He now has over one million followers on social networking site Twitter and only batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar is above him, his office said Friday.
The one million mark was
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Greek PM presents in Cabinet Tharoor’s theory on soft power
By Ashraf Padanna
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou liked Dr Shashi Tharoor's speech on the need for nations to pursue soft power at ‘TED Talk’ so much that he has made it a point to present it to his cabinet. He has also tweeted this from his official Twitter account:
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Grounding Air America
ndia’s recent decision not to purchase American warplanes for its $10 billion-plus fighter aircraft program – the largest single military tender in the country’s history – has stirred debate in defense circles worldwide. India’s defense ministry deemed the two American contenders, Boeing’s F/A-18 Superhornet and Lockheed’s F-16 Superviper, not to
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The tweeting classes
The role of social media websites — such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube and Skype — in the unfolding revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, with ripples elsewhere in North Africa and West Asia, has given new impetus to the discussion of their impact on world politics. The eminent American
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Tharoor: Europe must stop lecturing India: Translated from an Interview in French
While relations between India and China or India and the US have their moments of tension, nothing divides the country and Europe, except when Europe tries to give too much advice on domestic issues, said Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary general and a member of the Indian parliament, in
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India’s problem is implementation: Tharoor in Kolkata
India's problem was not a lack of ideas but a lack of their implementation, quipped former federal foreign minister Shashi Tharoor at a programme in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The platform had been organised by the Ladies Studies Group at a city five star to discuss India’s engagement with South-East Asian
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Wariness about impact of ‘Mohali spirit’
India-Pakistan relations —a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since 26/11 —received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. When the two countries became semi-finalists in the game's quadrennial World Cup, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited his Pakistani counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gilani, to
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Shashi Tharoor:’If you have taken on something, you have to do it’
Thiruvananthapuram member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor, star campaigner for the Congress-led United Democratic Front in the Kerala assembly elections, speaks to Shobha Warrier about all things political.
Ever since Congress Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor lost the central minister's post, he has been spending most of his time in Thiruvananthapuram, his
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CNN Interview:Shashi Tharoor on Libya and Indian Corruption
With a growth rate of over 8% and a billion-plus population, India will undoubtedly play a critical role shaping this new century. But what kind of role will that be?
Last month, India joined Russia, China, Brazil and Germany in abstaining from the vote for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973,
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Wickets and Wariness
India-Pakistan relations – a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai of November 2008 – received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. When the two countries became semi-finalists in the game’s quadrennial World Cup, Indian Prime Minister
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Tharoor woos Oracle to Kerala
The rumour has been confirmed. Oracle Corporation, the second largest information technology company in the world, will start operations in Kerala from June.
Sources confirmed to Deccan Chronicle the company will start operations from a rented facility at Technopark here in June and will move to Leela Park, in the Technopark’s
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Let’s take fresh guard
India's 21st century economic story has begun to resemble an ODI. If the era of economic growth began in 1991, with the great adventure of liberalisation (Manmohan Singh's economic "idea whose time has come"), then by 2011, we as a country are headed well into our "middle overs". Successful ODI
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Tharoor strikes a chord with the audience
About the photo: Shashi Tharoor greets an old woman during his election campaign at Kovalam on Sunday. At the same event, when a middle-aged woman greeted him by putting a scarf around his neck, Tharoor returned the compliment instantly by putting another scarf around her neck as the crowd burst
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Shashi Tharoor in FEMINA magazine
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Shashi Tharoor in Nagpur
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Chinese, Indian style
Today, this column appears in one more city —Deccan Chronicle makes its first appearance in Kochi. Inspired by the city’s famous Chinese fishing nets and Kerala’s renowned prowess in athletics, I thought this might be the occasion for looking anew at India’s ties with China — not through the prism
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Shashi shines, party sighs
Ex-boss cheers foreign policy speech, wife beams
Almost forgotten after his inglorious exit from the ministry or remembered occasionally for his boyish infatuation with Sunanda Pushkar, Shashi Tharoor today showcased his oratorical skills in the Lok Sabha with such finesse and command that many members lamented this wasted talent.
The IPL controversy
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Foreign policy is no longer foreign: Tharoor
NAGPUR: Dressed in an impressive red kurta and grey Nehru jacket, eminent author, columnist, human rights advocate, former United Nations under-secretary general and Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Shashi Tharoor wowed all those present at the Vasantrao Deshpande hall in Civil Lines with his eloquent speech and debonair personality.
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Cong MP for safety of school vans
Expressing grave concern over the spate of accidents involving school buses, a Congress member in the Lok Sabha today made a strident plea for a national campaign to evolve standards for maintaining safety of vehicles carrying school children.
The guidelines issued by Supreme Court in 1997 on the safety standards of
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The Crisis of Microfinance
The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which blazed a trail for microfinance in developing countries, has thrown a spotlight on the crisis engulfing a business that was once seen as a harbinger of hope for millions.
Yunus’s tussle with
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Halt for two trains
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major relief for Technopark employees and students of the Kerala University Kariavattom campus, the Southern Railway authorities have decided to introduce stoppage for two trains at Kazhakkootam station. The Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Parasuram Express (Train No: 6349) and Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram Express (Train No.2697) will have stops at the Kazhakkootam
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Tharoor celebrates 21 years of ‘The Great Indian Novel’
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS)- One of the best contemporary retelling of an Indian classical epic, 'The Great Indian Novel', a transcreation of Ved Vyasa's Mahabharata by writer-politician Shashi Tharoor, has completed 21 years since it was published.
The writer celebrated the 21st birthday of his book by reading from
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Reaction to Union Budget- Shashi Tharoor
As the Finance Minister himself so aptly put it in para 10 of his Budget
Speech, "the Union Budget cannot be a mere statement of Governments accounts. It has to reflect the Government's vision and signal the policies in future" .
The Union Budget, 2011-12 conveys a strong message of
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Letter from Dr. Shashi Tharoor to Hon’ble Minister of Railways
Dear Honorable Minister,
This is in continuation of my earlier letters of 1st November, 2010, 8th February and 9th February, 2011 regarding various issues relating to the development and functioning of the Railways in respect of my constituency, Thiruvananthapuram. For the sake of convenient reference, I am hereby enumerating in brief,
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From Wagah To Attari, Only 22 Yards
Intense cricketing rivalry can make for good matches. But India and Pakistan paint it over with politics.
When I was a schoolchild, and frequently bedridden with asthma, one of my favourite activities was to construct imaginary cricket teams for the solitary pastime known as “book cricket”. This was a game
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Cult a way- The Green Run
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The Arabs and the Democratic Choice
Egypt’s fate has had the world riveted in recent days to newspapers and televisions, as the unfolding consequences of Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” seem to portend a wave like the liberal revolutions of 1848 for the Arab world. Amateur historians ask breathlessly whether this could be the year of decisive change
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The scent of jasmine
The tumultuous events in Egypt this week, still unfolding as I write, have been commented upon by experts far more knowledgeable than I am about the Arab world. And yet there is one aspect of what has happened that none of the experts seems to have focused on — something
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Review: Conversations with Myself
By Shashi Tharoor
Nelson Mandela is one of the great figures of our age. Born into South African nobility, educated in the law, forced to break it in quest of the higher cause of freedom and justice from apartheid, imprisoned for 27 long years, and finally emerging, unembittered and majestic, to
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India’s lost boys
Is there something in the national character that makes young talents taper away unfulfilled? That ensures brilliance is too easily satisfied?
A chilly London summer evening in 1967 during the tour of the Indian Schoolboys' team: three balls left, 11 runs needed for victory. The first delivery, fast and swinging, uproots
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New to the political game
One English summer a 13-year-old Shashi Tharoor decided he was going to read a book a day for a year. He did. But his pride in his achievement was diminished by a precocious realisation. “Half my childhood was spent saddened with the knowledge that there were so many more books
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And the Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities Are …
And the Hottest Vegetarian Celebrities Are ...
Drum roll, please: MP Dr Shashi Tharoor and actor Vidya Balan are the winners of PETA India's Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity contest!
Dr Tharoor – an accomplished author, social-rights advocate, and one of the more candid members of the Indian Parliament – is proof that politicians
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Huzoor, Dili dur ast
“Embassy Row” in Dili, capital of Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor), occupies much of the capital’s sparkling seafront. All the embassies have majestic views of the Indian Ocean. The imposing US embassy is set far back from the street in fear of possible truck-bombers; the Chinese one practically hugs
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India at the high table
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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PERSPECTIVE: More Sinned Against Than Sinning
Shashi Tharoor is not a saint, but he is not the personification of evil either. 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.' | By Sabin Iqbal
Of late, I use the word 'parochialism' a lot in my writing. In the beginning it was employed against the vernacular writers
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Kerala: The Way Forward
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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Tharoor issues legal notice to Kairali TV and Deshabhimani over misrepresentation of Ad on Award photo
January 04, 2011
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, MP has demanded an unconditional and public apology by Kairali TV and Deshabhimani newspaper for carrying reports deliberately misrepresenting facts about an advertisement which appeared in a newsmagazine in connection with an achievement award bestowed on him.
The legal notice issued by Dr. Tharoor through
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Connecting two Indias
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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Allegations against Tharoor on Teacher’s award ad – baseless and motivated.
We have noted that some channels wih political links are alleging that Dr Shashi Tharoor, MP has appeared in an advertisement as a "brand ambassador" for a liquor company. The charges are completely false and deserve to be dismissed with contempt.
Dr Tharoor, in his capacity as an internationally-respected author, won
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More global cooperation needed on world issues
THE first 50 years of Shashi Tharoor's life were like a starburst. He moved from being the youngest person at Tufts University to be conferred a PhD (he was 22), to the best Indian journalist under 30, to being nominated at the age of 50 to succeed Mr Kofi Annan
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