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Dr. Shashi Tharoor is a Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram and former MoS for External Affairs and HRD. He served the UN as an administrator and peacekeeper for three decades. He studied History at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and International Relations at Tufts University. Tharoor has authored 18 books, both fiction and non-fiction; his most recent book is The Paradoxical Prime Minister. Follow him on Twitter @ShashiTharoor.
Bari Bari baaten likhana chhore ke batao tumhari agali premika kaun?rp jise tumane badh karane ka sonch rakhkha hai.
Iam really perplexed by the ignorance of vast majority of anchors in the main stream media. They find pleasure in fooling the masses by deliberate false hood. The view by Shri Tharoor is the majority view. There is no better hindu than Tharoor who is wedded to hindu culture. One require a minimum knowledge to appreciate and enjoy the scholarly presentation by this great learned man. It was vividly presented by shri. Astutosh in his reply to media twisting Taroor’s speech. As for me Hinduism is not violent and but teaches tolerance. A corrupt and biased media is dangerous to our nations existence.
Does Sashi Tharoor,by connotation,say that those who built a mosque at the place where Lord Sreeram was borne were bad Moslems? If that is what he would like to say why this circumlocution?
Shashi Tharoor ji. India is not a place where you can put forward your personal opinion particularly if you are a politician either in the ruling party or in the opposition. The other side will twist your comments to suit their agenda and the media is ever willing to oblige. Why you left the UN job and came here? UN should have been a better place for intelligent people like you, in no way India.
Mr. Tharoor!
You have been a diplomat and know it very well that meanings of sentence is taken from your intent. You are well educated and speak/ write great English, but in a country of over a billion there are many educated people and they understand what your intention is. Every body is not Pappu. You as a political party decide to what to utter at what time. Let me remind you and your stoops that you are a habitual Hindu hater following Sonia and Rahul. Did you forget your statements of Hindu Pakistan and Hindu Taliban? Probably yes, but people did not. Did you forget that your party office bearer and congress workers (in your state) publicly killed a cow on the street, distributed and ate raw meat and celebrated? Did you forget that your president Rahul Gandhi had said that Hindus are bigger danger than LeT? Did you forget that you all created a Big Lie of Saffron ( Hindu) terrorism? Did you forget about senior leaders Aiyar and Khursheed going to Pakistan and asking Pakistan govt. to help congress removing Modi? Did you forget that Aiyar and CongressI journalist Vinod Sharma on record meeting separatists in Kashmir and criticizing Indian armed forces? You did Mr Tharoor because you all are given tasks to complete but your ‘cattle class’, we the people of India do not forget anyt5and see the things in totality and find your intention. You are a bigger ‘Lier’ than all.
It’s pride to be part of a secular India propounded by our constitution but today we see none of those principles spoken of except by balanced politicians which Mr Tharoor given his background most definetly is one.
His experience gives him that headway in a world in transition.Evil has to be rooted out by truth he does it with facts so necessary when most Indians seem blinded by false promises and devious insidious propoganda by our esteemed leaders.
Being apolitical personally and in the minority I respect Hinduism for its eclecticism and philosophy of life doing yoga and meditation myself being a trained yoga teacher but women friends taking up against the supreme court order about Sabarimala shocked me as they turned rabid. This is not the India of my dreams but what Mr Tharoor writes about in his book I am a Hindu. .Religion and state do not make good bedfellows in a democracy we claim to be but now am not sure.
Why avoidable innovative stories comes in the mind? If you have plenty of time, organise an educational trust and serve in the Hill areas where students need good education and training.
You should now acknowledge the fact that the media distorts and misquotes members of the BJP too.
We know Sir. Every time you utter something, you have to give justifications. That is the country we live in. But these words help in making the country we would want to live in. And the Mr. Manmohan Singh has previously said go true for you too – History will be kinder to you !
And India has people who listen before they judge.
As a person who worked in five post war countries and has seen what a biased media, controlled by extremists and unprincipled persons or groups, driven by lies and the pursuit of power can do to undermine democracy and stability, sow intolerance and hatreds culminating in destruction of the intelligentia, persons of integrity, and any legitimate voices of concern or opposition, I am deeply troubled that these tendencies are so much in evidence in the world’s largest democracy, known at one time for its tolerance of difference–that was the beauty of India.
Mr. Tharoor, we also do not believe in glorifying a part of history that was brutal. If your party believes that rape, destruction, forceful conversions is ok, that shows how much you’re ready to stoop for the minorities. Is everyone an Indian? Yes. Do we all have rights? Very much. But does secularism always mean getting trampled over for nothing, just cause they’re a majority? No. And that is unfortunately what your party has always stood for. I’m glad to see you’re all finally shaken up, because you finally see Hindus to be a potential vote bank. But leaving politics aside, pls do treat everyone in the country equally. That goes for the BJP too
A senior politician cannot have a “ personal opinion “, least of all express it in public. Nor is there much point in saying later that I was misquoted. Issues pertaining to religion and identity are being churned by certain people for electoral gain. Anything that would give them more raw material is best avoided.