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Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician and a former diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress of the Indian National Congress.

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In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Culture, Subjectivity, View, Views, Writing

There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

Countries, Country, Real, Trying, World

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

Blood, Differences, India, Land

Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

Away, Country, Mean, Relations, Stake, Worthwhile Things

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.

Bricks, Democracy, Press, Together

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.

Meant, Meant To Be, Only Time, Place, Wrong, Wrong Time

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

Believe, Complement, Improve, Needs, Resources, Technology

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

Blood, Self, Soldier, Soldiers, Take, Treasure

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Dare, Fundamentals, Heresy, Identity, Identity Politics, Vedas

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.

Anchored, Beliefs, Identity, Mind, Who I Am

If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.

America, India, Same, Satisfying, Sumptuous, Together

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

Acceptance, Attitude, Good, Help, Running

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Believe, Cared, Enough, Suffer, Suffering, Truth

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Crippling, Fate, Knowledge, Philosophical, Transient, Wise

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.

Clouds, Feet, Ground, Saint

Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

Bullying, Country, Dream, Interests, Powerful, World

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

Challenges, Clear, Contradicted, India, Sum, Thinking

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Country, Developed, History, People

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

Born, Forever, India, Reborn

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

Greater, Ideas, India, Nation, Parts

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