Help Kashmir bounce back
Government must act swiftly to ensure that Kashmir does not lose its place on India’s tourist map
By Shashi Tharoor June 01, 2025
Columns
- Philip Mathew
- R. Prasannan
- Bansuri Swaraj
- Anuja Chauhan
- Anita Pratap
- Namrata Zakaria
- Navtej Sarna
- Dr Mazda Turel
- Shobhaa De
- K.C. Verma
- Suresh Narayanan
- Shashi Tharoor
- Baijayant 'Jay' Panda
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Barkha Dutt
- Amitabh Kant
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Swara Bhasker
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Bibek Debroy
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Sanjaya Baru
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
Guest Column
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019
Shashi Tharoor
An author, politician, and former diplomat, Shashi Tharoor is a Lok Sabha MP. Former Minister of State for Human Resource Development in the Government of India, Tharoor has also served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information.
LAST WORD
Current leaders don’t care what the public wants. They do what they want. Netanyahu and Trump are examples
A survey said 47.8 per cent of the Israeli public wants Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept responsibility for October 7 and retire. And, despite President Trump’s White House showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, 52 per cent of Americans support Ukraine
By Shashi Tharoor May 04, 2025
Covid’s silver lining for India
India established its role in global health diplomacy and elevated its stature as a trusted partner in times of crisis
By Shashi Tharoor April 06, 2025
In Donald Trump's world, there are no rules anymore
Trump's actions have been characterised by extreme unpredictability
By Shashi Tharoor March 09, 2025
Wheth, Atmami, Omnivistatude: New words for old feelings
If any of these appeal to you, feel free to use them
By Shashi Tharoor February 09, 2025
All MPs should serve together
Delegitimising opposition will diminish democracy
By Shashi Tharoor January 12, 2025
Stay with Kochi Biennale
Kochi-Muziris Biennale has enriched Kerala's cultural fabric
By Shashi Tharoor December 15, 2024
Be proud of accomplishments of our ancestors without hindutva delusions
The Indians are the essence of wisdom, says Dalrymple in his latest book
By Shashi Tharoor November 17, 2024
I, Shashi Tharoor, coined the term 'multi-alignment'
What matters is not the word, but who gives it currency
By Shashi Tharoor October 20, 2024
How I became India’s Mr Difficult Words
My enthusiastic approaches to life and learning are inherited from my father
By Shashi Tharoor September 22, 2024
Tax the rich till they invest more
If direct taxes worked fairly, the rich would pay more
By Shashi Tharoor August 25, 2024
All Indians don't understand how our democracy works
Scale of MP's development projects dwarfed by comparison with MLAs
By Shashi Tharoor July 28, 2024
I played twice against Hollywood Cricket Club
Cricket undoubtedly has a future in the US
By Shashi Tharoor June 30, 2024
Some political vocabulary with Shashi Tharoor
Word to describe misrule of the last 10 years? Kakistocracy!
By Shashi Tharoor June 02, 2024
Let us not surrender the 'idea of India'
The Preamble is the most eloquent enumeration of the 'idea of India'
By Shashi Tharoor May 05, 2024