Shashi Tharoor Quotes

What the hell does this say about India? Appearances are more important than truths. Gossip is more ...

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of st...

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the natio...

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a mas...

Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting ch...

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...

I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffer...

I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I bel...

Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and rese...

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of it...

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ...

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India m...

flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of ...

If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in differe...

The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is mor...

On election days, the burdens of poverty and corruption and of a creaky economic system are put asid...

Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the...

minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the main...

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they...

And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in...

Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no ...

An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a se...

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and pr...

Truth is elusive, subtle, manysided. You know, Priscilla, there’s an old Hindu story about Truth. It...

Mahatma Gandhi was as devout a Rambhakt as you can get — he died from a Hindu assassin’s bullet with...