Shashi Tharoor
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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.
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Opinion | The Story Of A Hotel Check-In, And An India That No Longer Exists
Recently, a Muslim BJP leader was denied a room in a hotel in Aurangabad. Therein lie both the tragedy and the irony of our times.
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Opinion | The Beijing Spectacle: Two Weary Giants Carve Up Their Share Of The World
For the world's middle powers, including India, the solidification of Washington and Beijing's duopoly presents an acute, existential dilemma.
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Opinion | 'Who Else?' - The Hubris That Shattered The Left In Kerala
The LDF's slogan, "Matt aarunde?" ("Who else is there?"), complete with towering portraits of Pinarayi Vijayan, was intended to project stability and a lack of alternatives. Instead, it projected an arrogance that voters found stifling.
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Opinion | The 'Donnyland' Donnybrook: How To Conduct Foreign Policy In The Age Of Ego-Geopolitics
What's next after Ukraine's 'Donnyland'? Arc De Trumphe? Mount Trump-more? Trump Mahal?
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Opinion | A Year After Pahalgam, India Contends With Desperate Enemies, Distracted Friends
The most challenging question on this anniversary is what might happen if another Pahalgam-scale attack were to occur today. New Delhi finds itself in a strategic pincer.
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Opinion: The Great North-South Debate, And Prickly Questions About 'Fairness'
A strict population-based delimitation could produce a Lok Sabha in which a handful of large northern Hindi-belt states hold a permanent majority, enabling them to shape national policies even against the preferences of the rest of the country.
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Opinion | India Sits Atop 500 Million Tons Of Gold Ore. Why Isn't It Being Mined? - By Shashi Tharoor
We mine a pittance - barely one and a half tons a year - while draining our foreign exchange reserves to import hundreds of tons annually from mines in Australia, Ghana, and Peru.
