The Shashi Tharoor Column in


Fortnightly column, started April 2001 (new additions appear in bold)


 


So long, farewell ( April 27, 2008)
Losing our heads to Kipling? ( April 13, 2008)

The race against race ( March 30, 2008)
Many Indias in Singapore ( March 16, 2008)
Tolerance under threat ( March 02, 2008)

The mother of all American elections ( February 17, 2008)
Succour and sanctimony in the snow ( February 03, 2008)

An institution called Johnners ( January 20, 2008)
Renaissance man ( January 06, 2008)



A profit in disasters ( December 23, 2007)
Post-modern malls and medieval mind-sets ( December 09, 2007)

The man who was right, but lost ( November 25, 2007)
The man who stayed behind ( November 11, 2007)

Historic transition ( October 28, 2007)
There is hope for the tiger yet ( October 14, 2007)

Myths about terrorism ( September 30, 2007)
Courteous Statesman ( September 02, 2007)

Threats to global security ( August 19, 2007)
An adventure called India ( August 05, 2007)

Different takes on the faith ( July 22, 2007)
The nature of faith ( July 08, 2007)

Imagining India ( June 24, 2007)
New Realities ( June 10, 2007)

Getting ready for the information age ( May 27, 2007)
Key to the future ( May 13, 2007)

An unusual life ( April 29, 2007)
Dangers to look out for ( April 15, 2007)
Years of conversation ( April 01, 2007)

Dangers to look out for ( March 18, 2007)
True heroines of rural development ( March 04, 2007)

On the move ( February 18, 2007)
Beyond the legacy of secrecy ( February 04, 2007)

Mobile miracle ( January 21, 2007)
The two sides of a debate ( January 07, 2007)



Reconstructing Nalanda ( December 24, 2006)
When Doctors Emigrate ( December 10, 2006)

Our Stories ( November 26, 2006)
In praise of questions ( November 12, 2006)

Keeping the peace ( October 29, 2006)
To dream, to think, to go on ( October 08, 2006)

Openness is the essence ( September 24, 2006)
Festival of ideas ( September 10, 2006)

Embodying the essence of humanism ( August 27, 2006)
Things that happen only in India ( August 13, 2006)

Make the world safe for diversity ( July 30, 2006)
Rules for a global road ( July 16, 2006)
A time for reflection ( July 02, 2006)

Ethics and the economist ( June 18, 2006)
Not yet ready for globalisation ( June 04, 2006)

Politics of identity ( May 21, 2006)
When glamour meets opulence ( May 07, 2006)

Wasted genius ( April 23, 2006)
Little islands of England in India ( April 09, 2006)

Cricket's true spiritual home ( March 26, 2006)
The imminence of irrelevance? ( March 12, 2006)

Controversial stance ( February 26, 2006)
Magic on the field ( February 12, 2006)

Looking beyond the backwaters ( January 29, 2006)
Some historic years ( January 01, 2006)



I skipped the anniversaries ( December 18, 2005)
Anchored in himself ( December 04, 2005)

The great digital divide ( November 20, 2005)
Kalyanikutty's Kerala ( November 06, 2005)

Bagging the Peace again ( October 23, 2005)
Rushdie looks East again ( October 08, 2005)

The bond that threatens? ( September 25, 2005)
The lexicon of terror ( September 11, 2005)

In praise of Delhi ( August 28, 2005)
Kerala shows the way ( August 14, 2005)
Homage to Hiroshima ( August 07, 2005)

Questing spirit ( July 31, 2005)
Novel of the peripheral ( July 17, 2005)
Was there such a one as this? ( July 03, 2005)

`Under-reported'? The Top 10 ( June 18, 2005)
Imperfections in Friedman's flat world ( June 05, 2005)

Who is this middle class? ( May 22, 2005)
No clunkers ( May 08, 2005)

Reclaiming dharma ( April 24, 2005)
Every day a holiday? ( April 10, 2005)

Risen from the ashes ( March 27, 2005)
Travelogue in reading? ( March 13, 2005)

A pravasi forum ( February 27, 2005)
Florence of Arabia ( February 13, 2005)

When the pravasis came home ( January 30, 2005)
Metaphor for our times ( January 16, 2005)
Timeless epic ( January 02, 2005)



At home in the Gulf ( December 19, 2004)
Partner in the anti-AIDS battle ( December 05, 2004)

Mistrust out, trade in ( November 21, 2004)
`We're all Kenyans here' ( November 07, 2004)

Reality at 59 ( October 24, 2004)
Dream City? ( October 11, 2004)

Standing Tall ( September 26, 2004)
`Stephania' ... clearing the air ( September 12, 2004)

Diplomats as litterateurs ( August 29, 2004)
1947, first-hand ( August 15, 2004)
Stephanians in Parliament ( August 01, 2004)

Neruda ... poet nonpareil ( July 18, 2004)
Yeast is yeast, west is waist ( July 04, 2004)

Weapons of mass distraction? ( June 20, 2004)
Fat ... under fire ( June 06, 2004)

Democratic maturity ( May 23, 2004)
The importance of being Irfan, revisited ( May 09, 2004)

They overcame differences ( April 25, 2004)
What being Irfan means ( April 11, 2004)

Warrant for the right price ( March 28, 2004)
The night to remember? ( March 14, 2004)

Rights, a casualty? ( February 29, 2004)
Verbal fisticuffs ( February 15, 2004)
Two-word mantra ( February 01, 2004)

... worth lauding ( January 18, 2004)
A `claahs struggle' with `tom-ah-tos' ( January 01, 2004)



Evening in Manhattan ( December 21, 2003)
...and the day of the foreign correspondent ( December 07, 2003)

Short of 10 ( November 23, 2003)
A politician above politics ( November 09, 2003)

My father's heart ( October 26, 2003)
... and a literary fiesta in New York ( October 12, 2003)

The new global mantra ( September 28, 2003)
Powerless masses in the dark ( September 14, 2003)

He swept us off our feet ( August 31, 2003)
Off track, decades later ( August 17, 2003)
Sharp, witty and original ( August 03, 2003)

The things Indians knew first ( July 20, 2003)
Homage in Huesca ( July 06, 2003)

Our names, our pluralism ( June 22, 2003)
Why Indian science scores ( June 08, 2003)

Putting back the pieces ( May 25, 2003)
Mediapersons under seige ( May 11, 2003)

A call for self control ( April 27, 2003)
Relief after despair ( April 13, 2003)

This passion is a six ( March 30, 2003)
Indispensable, not irrelevant? ( March 16, 2003)
... and when its hero is attacked ( March 02, 2003)

Interrogating indianness ( February 16, 2003)
Flexing muscles ( February 2, 2003)

Strengthening indianness ( January 19, 2003)
The enemy lies within ( January 5, 2003)



Identity politics ( December 22, 2002)
Two weeks in Paris ( December 8, 2002)

Unsparing details ( November 24, 2002)
Reality: Spiritual and virtual ( November 10, 2002)

This is not ayurveda ( October 27, 2002)
Leitmotif of Kerala ( October 13, 2002)

Man of the World ( September 29, 2002)
Factor of Unity ( September 15, 2002)
Travails of Admission ( September 1, 2002)

Democracy at 55 ( August 18, 2002)
For all things South ( August 04, 2002)

Bernie, Lucy and Yusuf ( July 21, 2002)
Violence and its manifestations ( July 07, 2002)

Research and anecdote ( June 23, 2002)
Drama in New York ( June 09, 2002)

Saying no to veal ( May 26, 2002)
Symphony in one register ( May 12, 2002)

India for Indians ( April 28, 2002)
Experiment with autocracy ( April 14, 2002)

The second freedom ( March 31, 2002)
Hostages to history ( March 17, 2002)
"He is the same like God" ( March 3, 2002)

Wodehousian magic ( February 17, 2002)
Not yet a global phenomenon ( February 3, 2002)

The Colonial Crystal Ball ( January 20, 2002)
Charity: Answer to Inequality ( January 6, 2002)



"Scrabble" in Real Life ( December 23, 2001)
Churchill and his biographer ( December 9, 2001)

Need for a nation-state ( November 25, 2001)
Filling Stomachs and Souls ( November 11, 2001)

A Wonderful Wake-up Call ( October 28, 2001)
A Pandora's Inbox ( October 14, 2001)

Birth of the 21st Century ( September 30, 2001)
A Departure, fictionally ( September 16, 2001)
Classic and Contemporary ( September 2, 2001)

The Creation of India ( August 19, 2001)
Bedevilling Question in the Cadence of English ( August 5, 2001)

Humour in politics ( July 22, 2001)
Comedies of suffering ( July 8, 2001)

A Senator Defects ( June 24, 2001)
Epic Interpretations ( June 10, 2001)

For the Questing Indian ( May 27, 2001)
Karan or Kumbhakaran ( May 13, 2001)

Overcoming the Imperial Imperative ( April 29, 2001)
After the Dust is Settled ( April 15, 2001)
Licence to Be Himself ( April 1, 2001)