Shashi Tharoor

"The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts."

"The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contempora…"

"The memories of the first Independence Day may have faded, but the power of that magical moment must never be forgotten."

"There is, in short no end to the story of life. There are merely pauses. The end is the arbitrary intervention of the teller, but there can be no finality about the choice. Today’s end is, after all t…"

"Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms."

"What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea which is central to India’s survival, which has held now in the four decades after hi…"

"India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made."

"Dissent, is like a Gurkha’s ‘khukri’ , once it emerges form its sheath it must draw blood before it can be put away again."