Shashi Tharoor : (2)

" The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline. " - Shashi Tharoor

" Much of the conventional analysis of India’s stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of paradoxes, and one of those paradoxes is that so many speak about India as a great power of the 21st century when we are not yet able to feed, educate and employ all our people. " - Shashi Tharoor