On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

- Shashi Tharoor

If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not nec…

- Shashi Tharoor

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All …

- Shashi Tharoor

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

- Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

- Shashi Tharoor

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

- Shashi Tharoor

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

- Shashi Tharoor

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

- Shashi Tharoor

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How da…

- Shashi Tharoor