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Shashi Tharoor Quotes
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The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The episode of the ‘shoe bomber,’ Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The notion of ‘world leadership’ is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world’s most populous country by 2034? (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The roots of India’s soft power run deep. India’s is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
We’ve gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world’s largest democracy. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
India’s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an ‘unaccompanied minor’ made me blase about the rigors of air travel. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess. (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
The steep decline in America’s image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American hard power: the Iraq invasion, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, torture, rendition, Blackwater’s killings of Iraqi civilians (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend’s sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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 (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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 (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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 (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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 (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping (Shashi Tharoor Quotes)
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