'Of course, we meet to mourn that part of our human family that is missing -- to remember the individuals and tell each other their stories. But we also meet to unearth the lessons we can draw from their lives and their fates.': Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General, at the UN's Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, 29 January 2007.

'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.' -- Speech at the U…

'Just as human beings have an almost infinite power to destroy, they also possess an enormous capacity to learn, to grow and to create.' : Shashi Tharoor, Unde…

'The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.' [16]

A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.

Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Soc…

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb i…