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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
— Shashi Tharoor
but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget.
— Shashi Tharoor
There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
— Shashi Tharoor
India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.
— Shashi Tharoor
(Indeed there were outstanding examples of good governance in India at the time, notably the Travancore kingdom, which in 1819 became the
— Shashi Tharoor
there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I
— Shashi Tharoor
Gangaji's truth required activism, not passivity.
— Shashi Tharoor
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
— Shashi Tharoor
We have no word for "Nation" in our language.
— Shashi Tharoor
Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time.
— Shashi Tharoor
Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.
— Shashi Tharoor
While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate.
— Shashi Tharoor
Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.
— Shashi Tharoor
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.
— Shashi Tharoor
Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.
— Shashi Tharoor
history is neither for excuses nor for revenge 1.
— Shashi Tharoor
India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.
— Shashi Tharoor
The greater the speed of our news, the slower the speed of our time.
— Kanishk Tharoor
I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.
— Shashi Tharoor
The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party,
— Shashi Tharoor
The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.
— Shashi Tharoor
I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
— Shashi Tharoor
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
— Shashi Tharoor
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
— Shashi Tharoor
The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,
— Shashi Tharoor
It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.
— Shashi Tharoor
Europe's history of trading relations with India is borne out in the writings of the ancient historians Herodotus, Pliny, Petronius and Ptolemy, and
— Shashi Tharoor
The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.
— Shashi Tharoor
A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.
— Shashi Tharoor
The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it
— Shashi Tharoor
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
— Shashi Tharoor
national television broadcast a fifty-two-episode serialization of the Mahabharata, the script was written by a Muslim poet, Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza.
— Shashi Tharoor
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. — Shashi Tharoor
The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow.
— Shashi Tharoor
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.
— Shashi Tharoor
My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The
— Shashi Tharoor
Hinduism as a faith might espouse tolerance, this does not necessarily mean that all Hindus behave tolerantly.
— Shashi Tharoor
On Gandhi: Don't ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.
— Shashi Tharoor
They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.
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but it does not want
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