‘Kindly adjust’ to our English
I have long immodestly considered myself the inventor of the term 'prepone'. I came
By Shashi Tharoor June 03, 2018
Columns
- Prasannan
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Anita Pratap
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Sanjaya Baru
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Barkha Dutt
- Anuja Chauhan
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
Guest Column
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Why mammograms are safe
By Dr Mukta Mahajan June 03, 2018 -
It is our responsibility
By Jose Louies June 03, 2018 -
Allow captive cultivation of cannabis
By DR Ram Vishwakarma May 20, 2018 -
50 plus? Take care of your bones
By Dr Jatin Talwar & Dr Gaurav P. Bhardwaj May 13, 2018 -
Data protection rules and 2019 elections
By Kamlesh Bajaj April 22, 2018 -
Why this desperation to win?
By Sanjay Manjrekar April 08, 2018 -
Break the walls
By Jorge Ramos February 18, 2018 -
The big health debate
By K. Srinath Reddy February 18, 2018
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
Saving the Commonwealth, and the planet
The recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London would have struck many
By Shashi Tharoor May 06, 2018
Why link mobiles, bank accounts to Aadhaar?
Why link mobiles, bank accounts to Aadhaar? What is the problem with Aadhaar? Why
By Shashi Tharoor April 08, 2018
Clementis’s hat, Gandhi’s glasses
In the Czech novelist Milan Kundera’s brilliant novel The Book of Laughter and
By Shashi Tharoor March 11, 2018
Rediscovering Hinduism
Why am I a Hindu? The obvious answer to this question is that it is because I was
By Shashi Tharoor February 11, 2018
Looking back at Ockhi
One of the striking consequences of the vast size of India is that a cataclysm in
By Shashi Tharoor January 14, 2018
An awful English word
The other day I saw the picture of a lovely <i>rath</i> in a British Museum catalogue for an exhibition...
By Shashi Tharoor November 19, 2017
Being caste conscious
I have recently been taught a sobering lesson in what caste has come to mean in our intellectual...
By Shashi Tharoor October 22, 2017
Cookies over biscuits
As an Indian schooled in the English language, I have long been fascinated by its different variants in...
By Shashi Tharoor September 24, 2017
Beware the perils of fatalism
The 70th anniversary of our independence is now behind us. A vast array of articles, op-eds, interviews...
By Shashi Tharoor August 27, 2017
Pains of singing paeans
The old adage of ‘flattery will get you anywhere’ may just have been proved to be scientifically true....
By Shashi Tharoor July 30, 2017
Breaking the national identity stereotype
The recent election of Leo Varadkar, son of an Indian immigrant, as prime minister of Ireland has been...
By Shashi Tharoor July 02, 2017
Time for a change
Back in 1974, as a teenage collegian, I spent a summer holiday at the tea estate of a classmate’s...
By Shashi Tharoor June 04, 2017
How being Indian became cool
In my United Nations years, one of the dilemmas foreigners often confronted was in dealing with the...
By Shashi Tharoor May 07, 2017
High on the Holiday Index
I write these words on a long weekend holiday for Parliament. Tuesday is Ram Navami, so the Speaker has...
By Shashi Tharoor April 09, 2017