Shashi Tharoor Quotes

• La India no es, como la gente sigue llamándola, un país subdesarrollado, sino más bien, en el contexto de su historia y su patrimonio cultural, un país muy desarrollado en avanzado estado de decadencia.

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  País, Gente, Historia

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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• There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

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  Wrong Time, Only Time, Meant To Be

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• Un filósofo es un amante de la sabiduría, no del conocimiento, que, a pesar de todas sus grandes utilidades, sufre en última instancia el efecto paralizante de lo efímero. Todo conocimiento es pasajero, ligado al mundo que lo rodea y sujeto a cambios a medida que el mundo cambia, mientras que la sabiduría, la verdadera sabiduría es eterna, inmutable. Para ser filosófico hay que amar la sabiduría por sí misma, aceptar su validez permanente y, sin embargo, su perpetua irrelevancia. El destino de los sabios es comprender el proceso de la historia y, sin embargo, nunca darle forma.

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  Wise, Philosophical, Fate

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

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  Forever, India, Born

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.245, Arcade Publishing

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• It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

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  País, Ejército, Ganar

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• Si creías en la verdad y te importaba lo suficiente como para obtenerla, tenías que estar preparado activamente para sufrir por ella.

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  Believe, Suffering, Enough

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast.

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  America, Together, Different

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.62, Penguin Books India

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• Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

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  Together, Democracy, Bricks

  Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.

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• Sobre Gandhi: No olvides nunca que no nos dirigió un santo con la cabeza en las nubes, sino un maestro táctico con los pies en el suelo.

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  Clouds, Feet, Saint

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• 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?

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  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

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  Mean, Doe, Absence

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• India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

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  Who I Am, Mind, Identity

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.39, Penguin Books India

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• La diplomacia se parece mucho al "hacer el amor de los elefantes", que se acompaña de muchos bramidos y otros efectos sonoros, pero nadie puede estar seguro de las consecuencias durante al menos los dos años siguientes

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  Years, Elephants, Two

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• In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

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  Blood, Land, Differences

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.

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  Expression, America, Long

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

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  Ideas, India, Greater

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.113, Penguin Books India

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• Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

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  Self, Blood, Soldier

  Source: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com

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• Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

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  Terrorism, Preoccupation, Contact

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• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

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  Thinking, Challenges, India

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

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  India, Matter, Facts

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• Los británicos son el único pueblo en la historia lo suficientemente burdo como para haber convertido a los estadounidenses en revolucionarios.

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  People, Revolutionary, Enough

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Es la única institución internacional que tenemos en la que los gobiernos se reúnen para trabajar colectivamente por un objetivo común. Las crisis internacionales, por definición, requieren soluciones internacionales. El mantenimiento de la paz es una respuesta a los conflictos, es una respuesta a situaciones en las que a menudo no es asunto de ningún país en particular meterse. Me parece, por tanto, que el mundo necesitará en un futuro previsible el mantenimiento de la paz.

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  Country, Government, Common Purpose

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• 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

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  Running, Attitude, Acceptance

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• The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

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  Blow, Guy, Taj Mahal

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• No soy tecno-determinista. Creo que tenemos que mejorar nuestros recursos humanos actuales, y la tecnología sólo puede ser un complemento.

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  Believe, Technology, Needs

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