Indians love drama and so, often become sentimental fools. That is why we build temples for actors, get tattoos of cricketers and even cut off our finger when we vote for the wrong candidate by mistake like 25-year-old Pawan Kumar did in UP! Thank God he didn’t realise it happened because he was stupid else…he…
Congress needs to find full-term Chief, says Shashi Tharoor
August 10, 2020New Delhi: Senior Congress leader from Kerala Shashi Tharoor has said that the party needs to find a new full-term President to counter the perception that it is “rudderless”. He also said that it is unfair to be expecting Sonia Gandhi to carry Interim Chief’s burden indefinitely. “Congress needs to expedite process of finding full-term…
Re-visiting Shashi Tharoor’s advice on India-China border dispute
June 22, 2020I am no politician, yet in a democracy every citizen with a voting right is a politician. After all, he has chosen his Government. This is the simple reason I ventured to contemplate on what was happening in Ladakh at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between our forces and that of China. Thank God,…
Phase-3 Lok Sabha polls
April 23, 2019PM Modi, L.K. Advani, Amit Shah, Arun Jaitley, Shashi Tharoor among VVIPs to cast vote 37.94% voting recorded till 2 pm across 117 seats in country; 36.74% in Karnataka New Delhi / Bengaluru: Polling began this morning for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha election in 117 seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat…
Defence Minister calls on Tharoor
April 18, 2019New Delhi: Social media has lauded the gesture of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who, burying the political differences, visited senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram candidate Shashi Tharoor in a hospital and enquired about his health. Sitharaman, after completing her visit to Thiruvananthapuram and returning to Delhi, visited the hospital where Tharoor was undergoing treatment after…
Musings on Shashi Tharoor and his ‘Paradoxical Prime Minister’
April 16, 2019Reading books has many advantages to those who have no friends and those who have problem getting sleep. As for me, I have friends and no problem sleeping the moment I hit the sack, exceptions apart. All the same, I continue my old habit of reading books. After all, old habits die hard, it is…
Much ado about ‘Hindu Pakistan’
July 17, 2018By T.J.S. George The furore over Shashi Tharoor’s remarks over the possibilities of India becoming a “Hindu Pakistan” must have surprised his enemies and his friends in equal measure. It also reminds us, yet again, that we live in a politically surcharged atmosphere where battles can suddenly break out over a gesture, a phrase, a…
Tharoor charged with abetting Sunanda’s suicide
May 15, 2018New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been charged with abetting the suicide of his wife Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead at a five-star hotel in Delhi in 2014. Tharoor, a Parliamentarian from Kerala, has also been accused of cruelty to his wife, in a Police charge-sheet submitted in a Delhi court yesterday. Tharoor,…
Importance of washing bottoms!
March 19, 2017Sir, Congratulations to Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem on his highly interesting and socially relevant article ‘Let Clean Bottoms Come First!’ in SOM dated Mar.17. Here is a quotation from Shashi Tharoor’s latest book ‘An Era of Darkness’ on the British Empire in India, which is related to the same subject: The East India Company had…
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