Shashi Tharoor

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Anita Katyal | Will no-trust bid give PM boost? Tharoor stirs the pot in Kerala...

This timing will allow Mr Modi to set the political narrative and end the session in a blaze of glory.

06 Aug 2023 12:15 AM

Anita Katyal | Why feisty Mahua made to retreat; place in CWC at last for Tharoor?

According to the political grapevine she was asked to take it down as Mamata Banerjee did not approve of the tweet

19 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why the global reach of a ‘Vishwa Guru’ falls short

What wisdom will this guru who can’t guard India’s own borders and who exports deadly lethal children’s medicines impart to others?

05 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Mr Tharoor’s steadfast assertions of his commitment to the Nehruvian principles of economics and secular politics would naturally be endearing to those sections. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Is Tharoor a problem for Cong?

Mr Tharoor possesses qualities that are sellable among the aspirational middle class Keralites, too

25 Nov 2022 12:10 AM

Cover photo of 'Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor' (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhi’s best critic or worst?

Review of 'Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor'

06 Nov 2022 1:58 AM

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Cong’s Kharge era: Can he & Gandhis make it work?

Among the immediate and urgent challenges facing the Congress and its new non-Gandhi president are the Assembly elections in Gujarat and HP

22 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

The “loyalist” approach attributes to the Gandhis strange magical powers -- bordering on magical realism -- that inhibit the independent working of the Congress. (Representational Image/DC)

Anand K. Sahay | ‘Loyalists’ and Congress: Will polls change party?

Whatever the party’s many failings, it is hard to see the Congress as a straitjacketed Stalinist outfit in which free speech is frowned upon

13 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Very many institutions in Britain have engaged in research to find and expiate connections with and profit in the past from slavery. (AFP File Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | Who’ll atone for slave trade, all the loot? Who’ll pay reparations?

History is full of injustices, transgressions and genocide. Are the descendants of the victims of those injustices entitled to reparations.

08 Oct 2022 1:01 AM

Kharge (in picture) appeared on the scene only after Ashok Gehlot refused to toe the high command line and leave his present job as Rajasthan Chief Minister. It is too obvious his moves found no favour with the high command and hence the candidature of Mr Kharge. — DC File Image

AA Edit | Family still pre-eminent as Congress in election mode

Kharge has said Tharoor rejected his suggestion for a consensus candidate

03 Oct 2022 11:58 PM

MP Shashi Tharoor with former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: Twitter)

Anita Katyal | Cong prez polls: Diggy & Shashi got played, Selja scare for Hooda

Once it became clear that Raj CM Ashok Gehlot was not in the fray for the election of the next Cong prez, a host of names did the rounds

02 Oct 2022 12:00 AM

Despite the much-hyped claim about maintaining “neutrality”, the party high command — meaning the Gandhi family — is clearly backing Kharge. (Photo: PTI)

Cong chief poll: Gandhis-backed Kharge vs rebel Tharoor

A majority of senior party leaders, including some G-23 members, have rallied around Kharge

30 Sep 2022 9:45 PM

File photos of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (DC Image)

Anita Katyal | Why Hemant stays; few takers for Tharoor as Congress prez

Not many are enthused with Shashi Tharoor’s plan to contest for the party president’s post

04 Sep 2022 1:00 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | The Kohinoor for Camilla? It’s high time it is back home…

It is possible that Prince Charles, being the fair-minded bloke he is, decides to persuade Camilla to repatriate the Kohinoor to India

12 Feb 2022 12:23 AM

Shashi Tharoor with his wife Sunanda Pushkar (ANI file photo)

Sunanda Pushkar death case: Shashi Tharoor discharged by Delhi court

Special Judge Geetanjali Goel of the Rouse Avenue Court said that the accused was discharged and asked him to file a bond

18 Aug 2021 11:42 AM

Interestingly, Tharoor’s controversial tweet came on a day when NIA team from Delhi arrested two women from Kannur district in Kerala for propogating IS ideology on the social media. (PTI)

Malayalis in Taliban? Huge row in Kerala after Shashi Tharoor's tweet

Tharoor tweeted a video clip of a Taliban militant weeping in joy on reaching the outskirts of Kabul

18 Aug 2021 7:44 AM

Sunanda Pushkar (left) with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (Photo:ANI)

Delhi court likely to pronounce order in Sunanda Pushkar death case today

Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in the city on the night of January 17, 2014

26 Jul 2021 10:30 PM

Parliamentary panel likely to question officials on Pegasus phone tapping allegations

A parliamentary panel on IT headed by Shashi Tharoor is likely to question top government officials, including from Home Ministry

22 Jul 2021 12:51 AM

Justice Madan Lokur, who retired as a judge of the Supreme Court, has in public remarks expressed his “disappointment” with the manner the top court has conducted itself in the discharge of its constitutional functions. (Representational Image : PTI)

AA Edit | Pay heed to ex-judge’s plea

Criticisms of Supreme Court judgments by retired members of the top judiciary are not unknown

10 Feb 2021 8:36 AM

Shashi Tharoor: Secularism as principle and practice in India is under threat

In the book, Tharoor makes a stinging critique of the Hindutva doctrine, asserting that it is a political doctrine, not a religious one

01 Nov 2020 3:34 PM

It all began with British historian Edward Anderson responding to a question from food aggregator with this innocuous statement on Twitter, "Idlis are the most boring things in the world." (Pixabay)

All about an idli: British professor's tweet sparks not so 'boring' debate

The steamed rice and lentil 'cake' - a pan India favourite - is suddenly much talked about and much discussed

11 Oct 2020 2:28 PM

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