शशि थरूर

Quotes

• “Every Hindu may not be conscious of the finer points of his faith, but he has been raised in the tradition of its assumptions and doctrines, even when these have not been explained to him. His Hinduism may be a Hinduism of habit rather than a Hinduism of learning, but it is a lived Hinduism for all that.”
• “I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. Rather I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself. The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge.”
• “No Indian nationalist leader ever needed to say: We have created India; now all we need to do is to create Indians.”
• “We all have multiple identities in India; we are all minorities in India. Our heterogeneity is definitional.”
• “Pluralist India must, by definition, tolerate plural expressions of its many identities.”
• “India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”

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Key facts

Appointed by

Om Birla

Preceded by

P. P. Chaudhary

Constituency

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Prime minister

Manmohan Singh

Minister

Kapil Sibal , M. M. Pallam Raju

Succeeded by

Upendra Kushwaha

Secretary general

Kofi Annan

Aicc president

Sonia Gandhi , Rahul Gandhi , Mallikarjun Kharge

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Wikidata facts

Official website

tharoor.in

Image

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