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Opinion | 'Who Else?' - The Hubris That Shattered The Left In Kerala

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Spices are the key to a renewed export future

I write these words in Kochi, a city whose very history is intertwined with the global spice trade. For over two millennia, this coastline has...

01.05.2026 20

Mathrubhumi English

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Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance

Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance
30.04.2026 10

Indian Express

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Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance

Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance
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Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance

Et tu, Kerala? Rise of identity politics threatens social cohesion, governance
30.04.2026 20

Indian Express

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Opinion | The 'Donnyland' Donnybrook: How To Conduct Foreign Policy In The Age Of Ego-Geopolitics

27.04.2026 20

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Opinion | A Year After Pahalgam, India Contends With Desperate Enemies, Distracted Friends

21.04.2026 20

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Shashi Tharoor writes: The Trojan Horse of delimitation, and fundamental questions about the design of our democracy

20.04.2026 20

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes: The Trojan Horse of delimitation, and fundamental questions about the design of our democracy

20.04.2026 20

Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor writes: The Trojan Horse of delimitation, and fundamental questions about the design of our democracy

20.04.2026 10

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes: A new world order needs a credible architect. India must claim that role

16.04.2026 20

Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor writes: A new world order needs a credible architect. India must claim that role

16.04.2026 20

Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor writes: A new world order needs a credible architect. India must claim that role

16.04.2026 20

Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Stout and Tender

In the vast, often self-indulgent landscape of contemporary poetry, Badri Raina’s “Stout and Tender” arrives like a sharp intake of breath on a...

15.04.2026 20

Mathrubhumi English

Shashi Tharoor

Opinion: The Great North-South Debate, And Prickly Questions About 'Fairness'

14.04.2026 20

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Islamabad channel: India must stand for peace, whoever the broker may be

If Pakistan succeeds, India should be among the first to celebrate the return of peace. Celebrating a neighbour’s successful mediation does not...

10.04.2026 20

Indian Express

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Opinion | India Sits Atop 500 Million Tons Of Gold Ore. Why Isn't It Being Mined? - By Shashi Tharoor

09.04.2026 20

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Islamabad channel: India must stand for peace, whoever the broker may be

09.04.2026 20

Indian Express

Shashi Tharoor

Islamabad channel: India must stand for peace, whoever the broker may be

If Pakistan succeeds, India should be among the first to celebrate the return of peace. Celebrating a neighbour’s successful mediation does not...

09.04.2026 20

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes: Kerala must show how an ageing population can thrive

By fostering a ‘silver economy’ that incentivises private investment in elder-care technology and infrastructure, Kerala can ensure that its...

02.04.2026 10

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes: Kerala must show how an ageing population can thrive

02.04.2026 20

Indian Express

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Opinion | On April Fools' Day, A Reality Check For US, Iran And The World

01.04.2026 20

NDTV

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Kerala: Education amid technological change

India, at her noblest, has always been a land of conversation. Our intellectual inheritance was not forged in silence but in dialogue. The sages of...

01.04.2026 20

Mathrubhumi English

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Shashi Tharoor writes | In LDF's Sabarimala U-turn, a lesson for religious reform

26.03.2026 10

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes | In LDF's Sabarimala U-turn, a lesson for religious reform

26.03.2026 20

Indian Express

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Opinion | Why The Current LPG Crisis Is More Than Just A 'Supply Chain' Hiccup

23.03.2026 30

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Shashi Tharoor writes: India's silence on West Asia war is not moral surrender. It is responsible statecraft

We were reluctant to condemn the Soviet Union’s flagrant violations of international law in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Afghanistan...

19.03.2026 30

Indian Express

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Shashi Tharoor writes: India's silence on West Asia war is not moral surrender. It is responsible statecraft

19.03.2026 30

Indian Express

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Opinion | Debt Trap To Youth Exodus, The 10 Big Crises Ailing Kerala - By Shashi Tharoor

18.03.2026 30

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The Sanju Samson I know — and admire

There are few joys in public life as deeply personal as watching a young talent you have known since boyhood rise to fulfil the promise you sensed in...

15.03.2026 30

Mathrubhumi English

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Shashi Tharoor writes: Era of gentle trade is over. Global village is being replaced by law of jungle

The realisation that a single geopolitical tremor — a pandemic or a sudden invasion — can collapse a supply chain has turned trade into a...

13.03.2026 20

Indian Express

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On Disagreement, Democracy: An Open Letter To Mani Shankar Aiyar - By Shashi Tharoor

12.03.2026 30

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Shashi Tharoor writes: Era of gentle trade is over. Global village is being replaced by law of jungle

12.03.2026 30

Indian Express

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Our stakes are high in West Asia. Delhi must call for diplomacy, de-escalation

Uncomfortable questions persist about the strategic logic of unleashing war. Was this gamble for regime change inspired by a desire to create a...

06.03.2026 20

Indian Express

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Our stakes are high in West Asia. Delhi must call for diplomacy, de-escalation

06.03.2026 50

Indian Express

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The Vizhinjam Vocation: Anchoring Kerala's future in a Maritime renaissance

For decades, the discourse surrounding the Vizhinjam International Transshipment Port has been anchored in the language of civil engineering-24 metres...

04.03.2026 50

Mathrubhumi English

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Reimagining Governance

As the Budget session of Parliament has got under way, it is arguably time to reflect not merely on governance as an administrative necessity, but as...

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Mathrubhumi English

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Why I introduced a Bill for a permanent framework for states’ reorganisation

13.02.2026 50

Indian Express

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For India-Pakistan, peace is not weakness, dialogue is not defeat

05.02.2026 50

Indian Express

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Blog | The Descent Of Man (And MP) - By Shashi Tharoor

05.02.2026 10

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Opinion | Budget 2026: Is 'Invisible Kerala' Paying The Price For Being 'Unaligned'?

02.02.2026 50

NDTV

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Kulathoor: A lesson in development without disturbance

They had insisted—almost pleaded—that I visit them, and so, with a touch of reluctance at first, I made my way to that quiet, unhurried village....

02.02.2026 30

Mathrubhumi English

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Blog | "Hamberder" To "Furniture Of Children", Trump And His 'Unpresidented' English

31.01.2026 10

NDTV

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Civilisational pride should remind us that our greatest achievements were born of openness, not insularity

29.01.2026 20

Indian Express

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Opinion | Why India Must Applaud - And Learn From - Carney's Davos Speech

22.01.2026 30

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Opinion | The Great Nobel 'Giveaway': Machado About Nothing?

17.01.2026 30

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The sage who reimagined Hinduism: Remembering Sree Narayana Guru

As Mathrubhumi Publishers release the Malayalam edition of my newest book, The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism, a few days after the Vice-President of...

16.01.2026 40

Mathrubhumi English

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Shashi Tharoor writes: Sergio Gor’s arrival signals that a reset of India-US ties is within reach

16.01.2026 30

Indian Express

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Opinion | Kerala's Minerals May Be India's Key To Long-Horizon Strategic Independence

10.01.2026 50

NDTV

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The Cartography of Belonging

This month, I find myself speaking at two literary festivals in Kerala – at the Kerala LitFest on Kozhikode Beach and then at the Mathrubhumi...

02.01.2026 20

Mathrubhumi English

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