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Shashi Tharoor

"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."

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

Shashi Tharoor

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“There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.”
“Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.”
“I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.”
“The closeness of the India-Afghanistan relationship is not a new phenomenon. It has existed since time immemorial. And as a close friend, ever since India's Independence, we have done and will continue to do whatever is required to be done to see Afghanistan grow and progress as a close friend.”
“I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?”
“You change your life by changing your heart.”
“I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.”
“I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.”

"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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