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Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്; Born 9 March 1956 in London) is an Indian politician, author, journalist, and a former diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala since 2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology.
Also known as: Tharoor, Shashi
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The memories of the first Independence Day may have faded, but the power of that magical moment must never be forgotten.
The pluralism and the linguistic diversity of India is something of which we can truly be proud.
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
Extra judicial killings are not acceptable in a society of law.
In building an Indian nation that takes account of the country's true Hindu heritage, we have to return to the pluralism of the national movement.
Pluralist India must, by definition, tolerate plural expressions of its many identities.
Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy - and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.
India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
No Indian nationalist leader ever needed to say: We have created India; now all we need to do is to create Indians.
No government has the right to inject religion into questions of citizenship. Citizenship is a privilege of people of all religions, all castes, all languages, if you're Indian.
Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.
We all have multiple identities in India; we are all minorities in India. Our heterogeneity is definitional.
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
Dissent, is like a Gurkha’s ‘khukri’ , once it emerges form its sheath it must draw blood before it can be put away again.
The Great Indian Novel (1989)
Does NRI (Non-Resident Indian) stand for Not Really Indian or Never Relinquished India? I believe a little of both!
India imposes no procrustean exactions on its citizens: you can be many things and one thing.
Ultimately, what matters in determining the validity of a nation is the will of its inhabitants to live and strive together.
I don’t go by my caste, creed, or religion. My works speak for me.
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