In an era when it's fashionable to criticise Nehru, Shashi Tharoor chose to release, his book, Nehru, The Invention of India in Mumbai last week. "There has been an anti colonial rejection of Nehru but I think we don't have the same concerns anymore," says Shashi. "In the book, I have been critical of some of his foreign and economic policies but we must not forget his legacy of institution building and pluralism which holds India together." The evening was high powered what with the presence of CM Sushil Kumar Shinde, former FM Manmohan Singh and Murli Deora. "Nehru and his generation had to fight for self respect with a new republic, our generation has been born in freedom," he pointed out. Working on the book he says, was kind of. self interrogation. "I've written on the forces of change that have made and unmade India," explains the author of books such as Reasons of State and India: From Midnight to the Millennium. Coming home to India on a quick break away from his UN duties has been an energising experience he says. "The notion that Indians abroad have of home as being this timeless, changeless India has undergone a transformation. As the world sees it, young India has its eye on the future."