Shashi Tharoor

Vaccines should be free and for allSubscriber Only

April 29,2021 03:02:05 AM

The Centre’s vaccination policy is a maze of confusion that could doom India’s future prospects.

Law promises people with disabilities equality of opportunity and accessibility, but our practices deny them thatSubscriber Only

December 03,2020 03:00:36 AM

It is critical that the government work with civil society and individuals with disabilities to craft an India where everyone feels welcome and treated with respect, regardless of their disabilities.

Life has triumphed over death in Hiroshima, but memories and stories remainSubscriber Only

August 07,2020 03:04:53 AM

Shashi Tharoor writes: When the museum commemorates its 65th anniversary this year, 75 years to the day after the A-bomb fell, it will help the world to keep its own memories intact — so that humankind can, through these searing reminders, ensure it never suffers or witnesses the horror of nuclear bombing again.

Changing to a presidential system is the best way of ensuring a democracy that worksSubscriber Only

July 25,2020 04:00:39 AM

Shashi Tharoor writes: It has never been clearer. The disrepute into which the political process has fallen in India, and the cynicism about the motives of politicians, can be traced to the workings of the parliamentary system.

Sharp fall in oil prices is opportunity for India to increase stockpileSubscriber Only

April 28,2020 04:05:26 AM

While prices are low, we should fill up our reserve tanks and rent space abroad. The oil will come in handy when prices have gone up — and more importantly, when we need it.

Let’s seize opportunity to drive economy forward without driving air pollution upSubscriber Only

April 16,2020 01:27:02 AM

Let’s defeat COVID, and let’s also make cleaner air an indispensable part of our defence against the next deadly contagion.

COVID pandemic has exposed fragility of global society, governance — and pointed to the way forwardSubscriber Only

March 28,2020 04:00:29 AM

Shashi Tharoor, Samir Saran write: Many will find in this pandemic an opportunity to close themselves off to the international community. India must defy such impulses. If anything, Indian leadership in these times — and a new resolve for global governance — may be just the vaccine that the international community needs to navigate a new decade.

A new, fractured global order is upon us. India’s response must evolve accordinglySubscriber Only

January 09,2020 03:54:00 AM

As political ideologies fail to provide purpose and meaning to individuals, they are increasingly finding refuge in identity and religion. The thin line separating church and state is collapsing rapidly.

To plug the data spillSubscriber Only

August 25,2018 00:30:20 AM

Data flows away from ordinary citizens, to those who collect and may misuse it. My Data Privacy and Protection Bill, unlike the govt's, places the individual at the core.

What Congress stands forSubscriber Only

June 02,2018 00:19:45 AM

The Congress offers the nation a far more credible ideology than BJP’s, tried and tested, not just anti-BJPism

Mountain of Light

January 07,2017 00:39:25 AM

There is only one argument for letting the Kohinoor remain where it doesn’t belong, in the Tower of London: it is a shining example of colonial loot

Not easy to stop lies about Rahul Gandhi, says Shashi TharoorSubscriber Only

May 18,2016 02:30:06 AM

The Congress MP was in the city to speak to party workers about effective use of social media to stay ahead of “Twitter-savvy BJP”.

Intolerance debate: The full speech that Shashi Tharoor was to deliver but could notSubscriber Only

December 01,2015 23:12:38 PM

Our democracy, in the last 70 years, has been built on the idea that a nation may celebrate differences of caste, creed, conviction, colour, culture, cuisine, costume and custom, and still rally around a democratic consensus.

Note to UPA-bashersSubscriber Only

July 23,2013 00:49:10 AM

There are problems and challenges. But we are on course to overcome them

Our diplomatic deficitSubscriber Only

August 24,2012 03:15:12 AM

IFS must be enlarged and renovated. It needs diplomats,not bureaucrats

The UN at 60Subscriber Only

June 26,2005 00:07:13 AM

Sixty years ago today, in the aftermath of the most devastating war in human history, a group of world leaders met in San Francisco to sign ...

History has been made, now overcome itSubscriber Only

January 17,2004 00:00:00 AM

Handshakes are not often termed ‘‘historic’’, but the one between Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakista...

A View of the World — Nation of HolidaysSubscriber Only

May 11,1997 00:00:00 AM

Of all the various ways of measuring the relative under-development of nations, from GNP tables to the Human Development Index, the one tha...