Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress and Contributor at Freelance
INC. MP for Thiruvananthapuram. Author of 25 books. Founder @ProfCong. ExMinister ofState, Govt.of India. Former UnderSecretaryGeneral, @UN. Cricket fan.
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6 days ago |
dhakacourier.com.bd | Shashi Tharoor |Sahatthaya Kraikhunthot |Jintamas Saksornchai
Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create. The statement issued by Afghanistan's Taliban government denouncing the recent terrorist attack in the Indian resort of Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, was eye-opening.
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1 week ago |
japantimes.co.jp | Shashi Tharoor
The statement issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government denouncing the recent terrorist attack in the Indian resort of Pahalgam, in Jammu and Kashmir, was eye-opening. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed condolences to the families of the overwhelmingly Indian victims — 26 civilians — emphasizing that such attacks jeopardize regional security. The implicit rebuke of the terrorists’ handlers in Pakistan has not gone unnoticed.
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1 week ago |
ndtv.com | Shashi Tharoor
As the world takes in the news of last night's Indian military operation against Pakistan, following the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22, 2025, which resulted in the death of 26 tourists, the question arises: What can we expect from the world? How will the international reaction to the emotively-named 'Operation Sindoor' play out? The first international responses have been largely predictable.
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1 week ago |
project-syndicate.org | Shashi Tharoor
en English Politics Pakistan spent decades nurturing, sheltering, arming, training, and financing the Taliban, which it viewed as a convenient instrument for exerting control over Afghanistan and achieving “strategic depth” against India. But as Dr. Frankenstein discovered, you cannot always control the monsters you create.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Shashi Tharoor
NowCNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, treks through the forest in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, a disputed territory between India and Pakistan as tensions rise between the two countries weeks after a terrorist attack killed 26 civilians in the mountainous Anantnag district.
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Fascinating nugget about the economics of magazine-writing in the pre-television, pre-internet era. Thanks to literary archaeologist @AmbarishSatwik !
Somewhere between the twilight of the Jazz Age and the beginning of the Great Depression, Scott Fitzgerald was being paid $4,000 per short story by the Saturday Evening Post, the highest circulated weekly magazine in the United States. This is roughly $70,000 per story in today’s https://t.co/ixfW1kAzp5
An utterly brilliant piece by @suvirsaran. Powerfully and movingly written from the heart.
"We live in a world being torn open—not by knives and guns alone—but by narratives. Fake news is now gospel. Empathy is seen as weakness. Diversity, once our pride, is now a battleground. The woke liberal and the fascist fanatic are tearing each other down, not realising https://t.co/a38anthD7f
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