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Shashi Tharoor – indyjski polityk i dyplomata.

✵ 9. Marzec 1956  •  Natępne imiona শশী থারুর, 沙希·塔魯爾, ششی تھرور
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Shashi Tharoor cytaty

„Indie nie mogą być uwiązane przez ciągłą wrogość. Szersze stosunki handlowe leżą w indyjskim interesie. Zyskamy na tym więcej, niż stracimy.”

Shashi Tharoor

Źródło: Marta Strzelec, Shashi Tharoor: Indie muszą zdecydować o swojej roli w środowisku międzynarodowym, polska-azja.pl, 24 lipca 2012 http://www.polska-azja.pl/2012/07/24/shashi-tharoor-indie-musza-zdecydowac-o-swojej-roli-w-srodowisku-miedzynarodowym/

Shashi Tharoor: Cytaty po angielsku

“Dissent, is like a Gurkha’s ‘khukri’, once it emerges form its sheath it must draw blood before it can be put away again.”

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Shashi Tharoor książka The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel (1989)

“"It was as if he had heard what I wanted," she said. But a skilled magician can do that, and it would be wrong to see Sai Baba as a conjurer. He has channeled the hopes and energies of his followers into constructive directions, both spiritual and philanthropic.”

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The Hindu, &quot;Reality - Spiritual and Virtual&quot;, Nov 10, 2002 Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/11/10/stories/2002111000620300.htm. <br class="br">2000s

“Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.”

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The 125th Anniversary Jubilee Lecture, St. Stephen&#x27;s College, Delhi, November 12 2005, &quot;India: from Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond&quot; Available Online http://www.shashitharoor.com/books/midnight/lecture.html <br class="br">2000s

“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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Shashi Tharoor książka The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel (1989)

“To speak of Hindu fundamentalism, is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals. To be an Indian Hindu is to be part of an elusive dream all share, a dream that fills our minds with sounds, words, flavours from many sources that we cannot easily identify.”

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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone. p. 64.

“What is most important to me is Jawaharlal Nehru's idea of India, India as a pluralist society and polity, an idea which is central to India’s survival, which has held now in the four decades after his death and which is all the more in need of defending.”

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Edited transcript of remarks, 11/13/03 Books for Breakfast, &quot;Nehru: The Invention of India&quot; Available Online http://web.archive.org/web/20060927152610/http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/1075.html <br class="br">2000s

“We Indians are notoriously good at being resigned to our lot. Our fatalism goes beyond, even if it springs from, the Hindu acceptance of the world as it is ordained to be. I must tell you a little story - a marvellous fable from our puranas that illustrates our resilience and self-absorption in the face of circumstances. A man is pursued by a tiger. He runs fast, but his panting heart tells him that he cannot run much longer. He sees a tree. Relief! He accelerates and gets to it in one last despairing stride. He climbs the tree. The tiger snarls below him, but he feels that he has at last escaped its snapping jaws…”

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Shashi Tharoor książka The Great Indian Novel

The Great Indian Novel (1989)

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

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The Hindu, &quot;Strengthening Indianness &quot;, Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2003/01/19/stories/2003011900240300.htm <br class="br">2000s

“This is my story of the India I know, with its biases, selections, omissions, distortions, all mine…. Every Indian must for ever carry with him, in his head and heart, his own history of India.”

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Shashi Tharoor książka The Great Indian Novel

Źródło: The Great Indian Novel (1989)

“India imposes no procrustean exactions on its citizens: you can be many things and one thing.”

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"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001

“In building an Indian nation that takes account of the country's true Hindu heritage, we have to return to the pluralism of the national movement.”

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The Hindu, &quot;1947, first-hand &quot;, Sunday, Aug 15, 2004 Available Online http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2004/08/15/stories/2004081500530300.htm <br class="br">2000s

“Partition, split of the nationalist movement didn’t happen over ideology or geography. It happened on one key question – is religion the determinant of our nationhood.”

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2020s

“Secularism as principle and practice is in danger, but I do not see it falling anytime soon: India embodies tolerance and pluralism in its very essence, and I do not believe that forces of hatred can permanently overcome our fundamental secularism.”

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Źródło: &quot;Secularism as principle and practice in India is in ‘danger’: Shashi Tharoor&quot; https://indianexpress.com/article/india/shashi-tharoor-new-book-securalism-religion-6912107/, The Indian Express, November 1, 2020.