Shashi Tharoor
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Opinion | 'Say Our Name': Why A Tiny Island Nation Wants The World To Get Its Name Right
Standing before the UN hall of nations, Naoero President David Adeang asked the world to unlearn its comfortable habits and speak a restored truth.
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Opinion | 'Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics': On The Controversy Around India's GDP Growth Figures
The debate is less about a single figure than about a decade-long erosion of trust in official statistics.
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Opinion | The Trump-Xi Summit, And India's Many Worries Of Its Own
Washington and Beijing may have chosen coexistence over confrontation. For India, that could be both a relief and a warning.
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Opinion | Building BRICS In New Delhi
For India as the host nation, chairing the summit tests the core tenet of its modern foreign policy: strategic autonomy.
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Opinion | 9/11, And The Price Of Fighting Terror For A Quarter Century
Twenty-five years later, 9/11 is more than just a lived memory for those who witnessed it in real time, as I did as a UN official
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Blog | Why You Should Care Whether Schrodinger's Cat Is Dead Or Alive
Imagine going on a romantic Alpine getaway and returning with the equation that runs the modern world. The only snag: nobody can quite agree on what it says about reality.
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Opinion | Why India's Bureaucrats Have Learnt That Doing 'Nothing' Is Safer
India's bureaucracy has perfected a peculiar survival strategy: make a decision, you may be punished; make none, and you are usually safe.
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मुंबई में ऑटो-टैक्सी चालकों के लिए मराठी सीखना कितना जरूरी, क्या इससे संस्कृति बचेगी
मुंबई में आटो और टैक्सी चालकों के लिए मराठी भाषा की सामान्य जानकारी रखने को अनिवार्य कर दिया गया है. इसके पीछे की सोच और इसकी जरूरत की पड़ताल कर रहे हैं कांग्रेस नेता और पूर्व राजनयिक शशी थरूर.
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Opinion | Mumbai's 'Marathi' Test For Cabbies, And The Art Of Fixing The Wrong Problems
All these years, India's financial capital has worked just fine without a Marathi mandate for its taxiwallahs. Whose problem is the new language rule actually solving now?
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Opinion | 79 Years On, India's Enduring Answer To Those Who Had Predicted Its Collapse
Seventy-nine years in the lifespan of an ancient civilisation is a mere heartbeat; yet, in the annals of modern nation-building, it's an audacious triumph.
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The Coast Pays, Delhi Collects: What The Centre's Mineral Bill Takes From States
India's mineral wealth may lie with the states, but the power to tax it is increasingly travelling north.
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Opinion | 84 Years After Quit India Movement, The Nation We Must Still Build
The collective spirit of 1942 cannot remain locked in the past
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'A Breaking Point': An Open Letter To Nandan Nilekani On How To Fix India's Exams
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offers a radical blueprint to the man leading the Centre's exam reforms task force.
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Opinion | For The Great Passport Debate, A 'Common-Sense' Cure - By Shashi Tharoor
There is a gap between legal theory and the practical realities of a passport. But an easy fix can resolve this manufactured crisis.
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Opinion | Iran War: Has New Delhi Lost Out, And Has Pak Really Gained? By Shashi Tharoor
To imagine a Nobel Peace for the terrorist-sponsoring Field Marshal Asim Munir may be a fantasy too far. The world sees clearly the difference between an autonomous actor and a message-carrying stool-pigeon.
