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Shashi Tharoor Quote: “Justice, in British India, was far from blind: it was highly attentive to the skin colour of the defendant.”

51. “Justice, in British India, was far from blind: it was highly attentive to the skin colour of the defendant.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.”

52. “Bengalis say when offered cod, we still have other fish to fry.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn’t see in themselves.”

53. “She said my problem was that I saw things in people that they didn’t see in themselves.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The obscurantist and atavistic state that Narendra Modi’s BJP wants to create would look nothing like the one that made India the scientific superpower of the ancient age. It is enough to make one shed a tear. One can only hope that there are no peahens around.”

54. “The obscurantist and atavistic state that Narendra Modi’s BJP wants to create would look nothing like the one that made India the scientific superpower of the ancient age. It is enough to make one shed a tear. One can only hope that there are no peahens around.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.”

55. “One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.”

56. “I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “As we have seen, by the time it ended, nearly 4 million Bengalis starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere. ‘The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious’ than that of ‘sturdy Greeks’, he argued.”

57. “As we have seen, by the time it ended, nearly 4 million Bengalis starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere. ‘The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious’ than that of ‘sturdy Greeks’, he argued.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.”

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

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The Indian tricolour was raised just before sunset, and as it fluttered up the flagpole a late-monsoon rainbow emerged behind it, a glittering tribute from the heavens.”

59. “The Indian tricolour was raised just before sunset, and as it fluttered up the flagpole a late-monsoon rainbow emerged behind it, a glittering tribute from the heavens.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The imperial system of law was created by a foreign race and imposed upon a conquered people who had never been consulted in its creation.”

60. “The imperial system of law was created by a foreign race and imposed upon a conquered people who had never been consulted in its creation.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “Between opponents who will not physically fight, a punch line is equivalent to a punch.”

61. “Between opponents who will not physically fight, a punch line is equivalent to a punch.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “We have no word for “Nation” in our language.”

62. “We have no word for “Nation” in our language.”

— Shashi Tharoor

63. “Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there’s trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.”

64. “Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there’s trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

65. “The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “And yet, when to act on that belief causes deep hurt to innocents who had nothing to do with the original wrong – if there was one – do we not have a greater responsibility to the present than to the past?”

66. “And yet, when to act on that belief causes deep hurt to innocents who had nothing to do with the original wrong – if there was one – do we not have a greater responsibility to the present than to the past?”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The fact that Nehru had risked his life to save a single Moslem had a profound effect far beyond New Delhi. Many thousands of Moslems who had intended to flee to Pakistan now stayed in India, staking their lives on Nehru’s ability to protect them and assure them justice. In.”

67. “The fact that Nehru had risked his life to save a single Moslem had a profound effect far beyond New Delhi. Many thousands of Moslems who had intended to flee to Pakistan now stayed in India, staking their lives on Nehru’s ability to protect them and assure them justice. In.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed, is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized.”

68. “What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed, is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized.”

— Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor Quote: “The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.”

69. “The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.”

— Shashi Tharoor

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