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Shashi Tharoor

ARTICLES BY SHASHI THAROOR

India’s foreign policy must not be guided by the theatre of summitry, but by the substance. (istockphoto)

Shashi Tharoor: Should India lean towards China or the US? Wrong question

4 min read . 13 Oct 2025

U.S. President Joe Biden with Eric Garcetti who was nominated in July 2021 as ambassador to India but his confirmation ran into a controversy.

America’s missing ambassador to India is straining bilateral ties

4 min read . 12 Jan 2023

Law minister B.R. Ambedkar and (right) C. Rajagopalachari, governor general of India, on 14 June 1948. (HT Archives)

Shashi Tharoor on BR Ambedkar’s modernism

5 min read . 05 Oct 2022

Shashi Tharoor: Let’s not recast New Delhi in any party’s own image

4 min read . 02 Jul 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of the Brics Summit, in Goa on 15 October 2016. Photo: PIB

Emerging powers must be at the global high table

5 min read . 20 Mar 2018

The story of America told in this election has deeply diminished the soft power the US evokes. Photo: AFP

Does Donald Trump’s win signal the end of US soft power?

4 min read . 16 Nov 2016

Photo: Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times

The case for directly elected leaders

4 min read . 13 Sept 2016