Shashi Tharoor vs. Anthony Burgess
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Shashi Tharoor
1956 – present
Politics
India
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, author, public intellectual and diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second.
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"But no - what’s this? The branch on which he is sitting is weak. That is not all: wood-mice are gnawing away at it: before long they will eat through it and it …"
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Anthony Burgess
1917 – 1993
Music
United Kingdom
John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer.
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"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."
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