Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
Shashi TharoorThe British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
Shashi TharoorIndia is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
Shashi TharoorTags: development india
India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.
Shashi TharoorTags: india
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.
Shashi TharoorTags: wisdom philosophy
In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.
Shashi TharoorTags: india
I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.
Shashi TharoorOn Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.
Shashi TharoorTags: gandhi
The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
Shashi TharoorHindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?
Shashi TharoorTags: national-interest
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