Toxic Twitter needs reform
When I began tweeting actively in May 2009—providing a few hundred ‘followers’ quick
By Shashi Tharoor January 05, 2019
Columns
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Sanjaya Baru
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Anuja Chauhan
- Bose Krishnamachari
- Barkha Dutt
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Prasannan
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Anita Pratap
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- 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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Air cover
By Dr Vikas Maurya December 15, 2018 -
Marriage proposal
By Ashok Row Kavi October 07, 2018 -
Unreal growth
By Prof N.R. Bhanumurthy September 30, 2018 -
Why they want to kill me
By K.S. Bhagavan August 12, 2018 -
Joint effort
By Dr Yash Gulati July 15, 2018 -
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
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
The great Indian paradox
When I was at school in Mumbai in the late 1960s, a survey was conducted in selected
By Shashi Tharoor December 08, 2018
The name game
The recent renaming of the historic town of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh to an
By Shashi Tharoor November 10, 2018
Parliament must rediscover courage
Three historic Supreme Court judgements in recent months, all expanding gender
By Shashi Tharoor October 15, 2018
Legacy of love
When disasters finally recede, observers start analysing the lessons learned:
By Shashi Tharoor September 23, 2018
A battle for India’s soul
As the 71st anniversary of our Independence Day comes and goes, it is time to
By Shashi Tharoor August 26, 2018
Please do the needful
Two columns ago, I rashly ventured the immodest thought that I had considered myself
By Shashi Tharoor July 29, 2018
A tale of two World Cups
As the football World Cup captures audiences and imaginations across the globe, some
By Shashi Tharoor July 01, 2018
‘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
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