One of the finest brains India has! Should have been the UN Secretary-General, but dirty 'world politics' stepped in. I actually went to the Hague during my exams last year just to get a glimpse of him!! Only famous personality (Or celeb :P), I really love. ))

two finest examples of creativity and an immense intellectualism..both are my favrts

@Rhutwij Tulankar how can a criminal who killed someone not be in jail.....he hasn't been convicted yet......and by your logic..how do u justify Modi during Gujarat riots

@Rhutwij Tulankar : Modi is one better he just denied he was married. Among the countless lies - from being a Tea Boy in a railway station that did not exist to holding a degree made out of whole cloth. Ghati's have always been sour grapes the only hero they have is Shivaji, & they have named everything in Bombay, Parks, Airports & Railway stations after him. How about naming public toilets after good old Shivaji Maharaj. Then there is the infamous RSS with the 'Gavar' Ghati Godsey's being the Thuggish extension of this lawless extremist Neo Nazi's

@Rhutwij Tulankar: please comment or opine when you have a better grasp of English. Ghati's are people who come from the Ghat's. Being "based in America" you are probably unfamiliar with India's Geography. Your last name suggests you maybe a Ghati - Hill dweller, Pahadee or a peasant.

you saw a person from the opposition party calling the ruling party as chauvinists, fascists and nazis while glossing over the crimes of his own party that got them rejected twice as of 2019. keep listening to him and indian politics will continue to confuse you because he is disconnected from the ground reality.

what's your point. They also carried Ghati's & Bengali's!!!!

@@HIROLLER9 The major reason behind installing the railways were to transport weapons as fast as feasible after the war in 1857. All those Anglophilic ideas of 'because they oh so wanted to do good to India' is just a lame rationalisation. And it was paid for by the Indians through heavy taxation.

Noo, that's part of his charm.

Yes as long as it lines Modi's & BJP pockets, Demonetization, Vande Bharat Mission to cheat poor Indians stranded abroad during the Pandemic. His shenanigan's on Independence Day parading around in saffron clothes pretending to be religious like Trump holding a Bible outside St Johns Church _ The Two CON ARTIST's

It is like patting yourself on the back & celebrating after a race where you were coming last but finished 2nd last because the person in front of you tripped.

This was uploaded in 2015. So he has been proven wrong 4 years later. Also it was 70 ranks jump I think.

the video is 5 years old also india is at 69 wink wink

That's the problem. It beats me why all the memebers of the party don't clamour for a change when the country clearly is. But I understand why Tharoor alone can't openly not support Rahul Gandhi. If he has to be in power he needs a party ticket because independents rarely win and when they do it is precarious and at the mercy of some other alliance that they have to ally themselves with. Now since he has to be in a party it has to be Congress because the other one with a national presence is the far right bjp. So yeah. All this will continue till maybe another loss makes the problem of having Rahul pressing enough for them to find a better leader.

I n politics you need a base Sashi Tharoor did not..have.that

Tanwisha because the “family” owns the party treasury. Like a car without fuel cant run, similarly a national political party can’t run without cash. Hence they all need to side with the Gandhi lot.

Unfortunate but any party needs somebody to gather round snd Sashi sticked to present leadership

ST was stating the obvious, just because you dislike someone don't envy their looks, that is petty.

@@HIROLLER9 Rahul Gandhi is a short puny looking unkept wanna be politician. I really wished we had a better gene in him but the reality is that he doesn't have it and this is fact. Since this interview he has gone from bad to worst politically too. He is just a clown who needs to get the fuck out of politics

He lives in India, he is a writer . so why should he not do it? Indians also are in many think tanks in the US as well as in many sphers in leadership roles. would you say US is colonised by Indians?

Have you read his books? He views through a western lens. Indian in the US think tanks view from the US lens. Read Breaking India by Rajiv Malhotra, you will realize his real intentions.

He doesn't own many of them. He co founded the first one,the Jaipur Literature Festival. It's success led to all the other major cities start one. We should be thankful to him for setting it off. He's a self described Indophile.

Because we are busy saving cows

western cars are garbage. they are big, expensive and fuel inefficient. they were driven out by local competition. automobile industry in india is growing rapidly. we dont need to entertain trash companies backed by governments with deep pockets.

I disagree. He knows exactly when to switch because Shashi would go on

@@GauravKumar-mc2es I would much rather listen to ST as you may learn something. Dalrymple is an apologist for his kind, falsely justifying British intentions.

Ohh that's big mate! Honestly don't know much about William. But will read the anarchist book by him. May I know why do you say that?

Tanmoy Samanta ... is Mr Modi a god or what that he cannot be criticized? And The common refrain is that he is the Prime minister hence should not be criticized, well, so was Mr. Man Mohan Singh , and he was a fair game for criticism.... then why not Mr Modi ?

Critic224 Have you ever heard anything bad about chinese president and any chinese saying that..so all chinese president might be god according to you.There is a thing called perception building about your country in the world..because the world works on perception....do you know in other part of the world what is the perception of India..I tell you its dirty poor...rape culture..and no toilet...now go try to change any ones mind ...if you have the power

Tanmoy Samanta Chinese Presidents are not democratically elected while our prime minister is, and in a democracy, we are allowed to ask questions or criticize within a framework of respect, which is what Dr Tharoor did. He did not bad mouth the PM, he criticized within a framework of reasoning and respect. And yes, I know perception of India beyond its borders is very important, but you know what, perception is not made by lying in front of a foreign audience but actually by doing good deeds. If India is gaining a bad name due to rape cases in the country, then it is because rapes are taking place in the country, not because some Indian politician is admitting to them taking place in front of a foreign audience! If India is called an open toilet then it is because of the fact that till now more than 50% of our people still don’t have access to safe sanitation. Fix all this and we will change the perception of our country in eyes of the world!

@@tstanmoysamanta because if you say anything against the chinese president being a chinese you would get into a lot of trouble. Compare India with real democracies and not bad democracies and socialist countries where freedom of speech and expression are poor. Not like he said anything that wasn't a fact about Modi. And not like people abroad don't read the news and don't know about what's going on in India.

@@fizzybacon2388 Still they are much developed than India...if you want to build a road in India it takes a decade because people have right to block it being built, they will go to court and try how many ways it can not be built.Thats why they are 11 trillion dollar economy and we are 2.6 trillion dollar economy.

Yes, i am a hindu... and i absolutely agree that hindu culture should flourish, but what about the situations in which it is apparently used as a tool to capture and encapsulate political power and then subsequently risk a totalitarian regime upon India.

@@someshdevkar5387 yes it is all true that is bothering...however you need to make protests at the very onset. Then take it seriously with the people who are actively involved with the project. We need vigilance and persistent approaches to defeat and destroy the anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu elements from Bharatbarsha. Identify them. Then destroy them.

@@asisbagchi8118 but in that process, would it be fair enough to exterminate all others and would it be obligatory to impose on ourselves an autocratic repressive regime in order for hindu culture to flourish ? Does it make me a less hindu if i do not support the political ambitions of certain leaders ?

@@someshdevkar5387 preservation of good over evil this is our duty, our responsibility. This is how we develop ourselves. Our naturalness as Bharatbasi is our Hinduness (Hindutwa). We must behave naturally. Which means we display our naturalness in our acts, deeds and our relationships. It does not mean that we must tolerate the intolerant. It does not mean we display any odd behaviour in order to be multicultural, liberal or adopt appeasement policy and vote bank politics. It means simply we behave as we should .... normal, natural and not support or encourage any anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu activities. Our aim is to develop ourselves as Bharatbasi "Savka Sath Savka Vikash" (not by changing our naturalness or through appeasement policy). We must defeat all breaking India forces. We must defeat all naysayers. Bharatbarsha is known as Hindustan meaning "land of the Hindus". Due to our magnanimous attitude and extreme generosity we welcomed many outsiders over the centuries to come over here and settle down. Many of them have come here and settled down peacefully. Zoroastrians when pushed out of Iran (Persia) have come here settled and prospered. They do not have problems or issues! Only certain people find it difficult, and to them I say if you find it hard you may choose to leave we have no objections. We also say do not create problems here by showing your displeasure. Why? Simply your behaviour will not be allowed. You will not be tolerated if you are not complying. We will never tolerate the intolerant people, we never did, not now and never. Bharatbarsha is for Bharatbasi. Who believe that this nation is their Janmabhumi, Matribhumi, Pitribhumi and Punyabhumi Bharatbarsha. Nothing personal. Stay safe.

just listen to half the program TUBE

Ishri Rampersad : Is it your contention that the BJP are all honest, truth loving, decent people? ST said it best to Dasgupta during the Independence day debate. When we met on a train in 1972, you sir were a Trotskyite but since the BJP came to power you conveniently switched to the BJP, that sir, makes you a convenience politician. I (ST) on the other hand have been a secular, liberal congress supporter following the examples of the great Indian Stalwarts who fought & gained India its Independence, Gandhi, Tilak, Patel & Nehru, that makes me a conviction politician. ST is clear he is a civic nationalist who cannot reconcile with theocratic, Hindu Nationalism which denies the rights of minorities based on arbitrary categorizing of citizenship by religion or caste.