Shashi Tharoor Quotes on Politics
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'What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea which is central to India's survival, which has held now in the four decades after his death and which is all the more in need of defending.' [4]
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'In building an Indian nation that takes account of the country's true Hindu heritage, we have to return to the pluralism of the national movement.' [8]
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'The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.' [16]
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'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]
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'The UN is the place to draw up blueprints without borders. It is the one indispensable global organisation in our globalizing world.' ... Shashi Tharoor, DNA India, November 12, 2005