The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
Shashi TharoorIndia is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.
Shashi TharoorIt's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.
Shashi TharoorI make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.
Shashi TharoorThis is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.
Shashi Tharoor