DaughterOfHades

“Forget heaven and hell, yaar,” he says as he leaves. “It’s purgatory I’m concerned about. We call it Earth.”
― Shashi Tharoor, Riot

“The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel

“Nehru, speaking of his country’s dreams, said: ‘Those dreams are for India, but they are also for the world, for all the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.’ It”
― Shashi Tharoor, Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century

“Rabindranath Tagore put it gently to a Western audience in New York in 1930: ‘A great portion of the world suffers from your civilisation.’ Mahatma Gandhi was blunter: asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied, ‘It would be a good idea’. ‘The”
― Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India