Shashi Tharoor
Project Syndicate
New Delhi, DL, India
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India’s Long Infatuation with Russia Must End
Shashi Tharoor argues that an increasingly China-dependent Kremlin has become a highly unreliable partner. → Read More
The Price of Modi's Economic Incompetence
Shashi Tharoor warns that the Indian government’s inept policies could have potentially explosive consequences. → Read More
The Menon Métier
I ONLY MET the legendary VK Krishna Menon once, and in hardly the most propitious of circumstances. My father, then only 38, had been hospitalised with a heart attack in 1968 and I was in his room, an anxious child not yet 12, when his old friend came calling. Krishna Menon was out of office … Continue reading "The Menon Métier" → Read More
The north-south divide driven by Hindi-Hindutva-Hindustan is a challenge to federalism
MP Shashi Tharoor writes, The combination of ineptitude and bigotry has laid the country low; if the Modi government compounds its economic fecklessness with political recklessness, it could plunge India into turmoil. → Read More
India Looks West by Shashi Tharoor
A hostile China and the looming US withdrawal from Afghanistan have forced India to rethink its regional strategy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has thus sought to improve relations with Pakistan and engage with the Taliban – and for now, at least, it appears to be making the right moves. → Read More
The Complete Covid Chargesheet
Shashi Tharoor reads it out, point by point. The long list of missteps, gross errors of judgement, and active sins of commission—from the first lockdown to the present catastrophe. → Read More
Modi’s War on the Press by Shashi Tharoor
Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together a free society. If Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to de-institutionalize what used to be a dynamic and independent Fourth Estate persists, public confidence in the media will steadily decline, along with confidence in Indian democracy. → Read More
Whose India? by Shashi Tharoor
The narrow-minded, sectarian India that has emerged over the past six years will never appeal to the country's many alienated young people. Only an India that ensures full rights and dignity for all – the promise of liberal democracy – can do that. → Read More
China’s “Peaceful Rise” Vanishes in Thin Air by Shashi Tharoor
With the world's attention focused on the pandemic, Chinese troops have been establishing fixed positions in areas that even it considers to be on the Indian side of the disputed Line of Actual Control. The message is clear: China is now the region's preponderant power, and everyone else should fall in line. → Read More
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Admits He Is 'A Cricket Tragic'
During an Instagram live session with Sunil Chhetri, Shashi Tharoor went on to the extent of calling himself a 'cricket tragic' and revealed that his love for the game started at a very young age → Read More
Congress MP Sashi Tharoor Admits He Is 'A Cricket Tragic'
During an Instagram live session with Sunil Chhetri, Shashi Tharoor went on to the extent of calling himself a 'cricket tragic' and revealed that his love for the game started at a very young age → Read More
New Hope for Indian Unity by Shashi Tharoor
At a time when India’s social fabric has been placed under unprecedented stress, Indians greeted the Supreme Court’s ruling on a long-running inter-religious dispute with almost universal relief. The Court’s verdict thus should be viewed as the start of a process of national healing. → Read More
India’s Modi Slowdown by Shashi Tharoor
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi was overwhelmingly re-elected in May with an even larger majority for his party, many economists expected him to take bold steps to remove the many bottlenecks that have discouraged investors. But no one should believe the Modi government has the ability or the will to fix what it broke. → Read More
Narendra Modi’s New-Model India by Shashi Tharoor
By asserting direct government control over Kashmir, India's prime minister is remaking the country in the image of his chauvinist party. The new India is a far cry from the land of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, who preached non-violence, religious co-existence, and the acceptance of difference. → Read More
A Test Match with the Taliban by Shashi Tharoor
Under the tutelage of Pakistan’s military, the Taliban brought peace to Afghanistan the last time it ruled the country. But it was the peace of the graveyard, which it could establish once again – this time with the support of the United States. → Read More
India’s Cult of Modi by Shashi Tharoor
The recent Indian election will be a case study in how to upend the conventional assumption of electoral politics that an incumbent is judged on his record of performance against his own promises. Prime Minister Narendra Modi fulfilled none of his, so why did voters reward him with a landslide victory? → Read More
India’s New Social Media Politics by Shashi Tharoor
As India's general election continues, there has been little progress in stopping “fake news,” arresting its perpetrators, or limiting its spread. That's because the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is responsible for disseminating much of it. → Read More
A Battle for India’s Soul by Shashi Tharoor
Every Indian general election beats its predecessor’s record to become the largest in world history. This time, Indian voters must decide whether they want an inclusive country that embodies hope, or a divided one that promotes fear. → Read More
India’s China Problem in Pakistan by Shashi Tharoor
The deadly terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir last month has triggered renewed questions about China’s continued protection of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed. Will China continue to block international sanctions against JeM's leader, Maulana Masood Azhar, who has claimed credit for the attack? → Read More
The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain
His record in Britain’s former colonies more closely resembles that of a war criminal than a defender of democracy and freedom. → Read More