The Paradoxical Prime Minister Quotes

“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, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“Section 377 made any sex apart from penile-vaginal intercourse between a man and a woman—any sex the authorities in power decide is ‘against the order of nature’—to be illegal. The Supreme Court ruling made it clear that the personal sexual preferences of adults was indeed as nature made them, and that it was lawful for them to be themselves. Obviously this was great news for the LGBTQ community, whose idea of what is ‘natural’ reflects their sexual orientation. But it also impacted married heterosexual couples since, theoretically, an act of oral sex between a husband and a wife is also illegal. And if you were not married to each other, of course, it was worse. If Bill Clinton had been an Indian, he might have survived impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky affair, but he’d have ended up in jail under Section 377.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“The intelligent, autonomous, aspiring young woman with a mind of her own, her own wishes, desires and ambitions, is an individual most Indian men cannot come to terms with.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“in the binary terms made famous by George W. Bush: ‘Are you with us or against us?”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“we have reduced our politics to black and white today: either for or against, nothing in between. Fifty Shades of Grey could never be the title of a book about Indian politics. This view of”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“But having won an election by attracting voters to these themes, he has given free rein to the most retrograde elements in Indian society, who are busy rewriting textbooks, extolling the virtues of ancient science over modern technology, advocating protectionism and self-reliance against free trade and foreign investment, and asserting that India’s identity must be purely Hindu. Mr Modi cannot be oblivious to this fundamental contradiction, but he can only resolve it by jettisoning the very forces that have helped ensure his electoral victory.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not to their own facts.”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“Article”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister

“Manufacturing”
― Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister