2020: the year of the protester
Happy New Year! The purists may argue as to whether 2020 marks the end of the second
By Shashi Tharoor January 04, 2020
Columns
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Anuja Chauhan
- Anita Pratap
- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Shobhaa De
- Navtej Sarna
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Swara Bhasker
- Sanjaya Baru
- Barkha Dutt
- Shashi Tharoor
- Bibek Debroy
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- 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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Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019 -
Preventing chronic kidney disease
By Dr Bharat V. Shah July 20, 2019 -
Building capacity
By Dr Sanjiv Kumar July 20, 2019 -
Patient safety, the prime priority
By Pavan Mocherla June 15, 2019 -
Hit in the heart
By Dr C.N. Manjunath May 25, 2019 -
Five worrying factors this election season
May 18, 2019 -
Guaido vs Maduro: Face-off in Venezuela
By Jorge Ramos April 06, 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
Why we should increase our retirement age
This month, my mother turns 83 (or 84, depending on whether you go by her memory or
By Shashi Tharoor December 07, 2019
Spoonerisms for the soul
ou may all be forgiven for missing this momentous occasion, since I did too, but
By Shashi Tharoor November 09, 2019
The votes are with the poor
One of the striking features of the many U-turns made by Prime Minister Narendra
By Shashi Tharoor October 12, 2019
Manufacturing history
If much of what ails our present can be traced to our past, it is important to ask
By Shashi Tharoor September 14, 2019
Patel was party to Article 370
As happens all too often in our country these days, the past has been evoked to
By Shashi Tharoor August 17, 2019
Diplomats usually think twice—before saying nothing
The recent contretemps over the leaking of a diplomatic cable has suddenly thrown
By Shashi Tharoor July 20, 2019
Tipu and the Tharoor connection
My recent tweet praising Pakistan PM Imran Khan for remembering the birth
By Shashi Tharoor June 22, 2019
Use social media politically to inform and engage, but responsibly
The mounting worldwide concern over the misuse of social media peaked upon the
By Shashi Tharoor May 25, 2019
Vote for the future of India’s soul
As India heads into a general election, the choice is stark. Around us lie the ruins
By Shashi Tharoor April 27, 2019
The curious case of Chuuk
Sometimes a political or constitutional crisis elsewhere is of such momentous
By Shashi Tharoor March 30, 2019
Enact a national asylum law
One of the saddest developments in recent Indian government policy has been the
By Shashi Tharoor March 02, 2019
Regulate online gaming
One of the most open secrets in our country is that people gamble on sports, even
By Shashi Tharoor February 02, 2019
Toxic Twitter needs reform
When I began tweeting actively in May 2009—providing a few hundred ‘followers’ quick
By Shashi Tharoor January 05, 2019
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